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However, that changed when Rosenfeld the federal government. He wrote up his
went to college in Miami. When he real- own scientific project and had his doctor
ized he wasn't making any friends because sign off on it. He collaborated with Bob
he didn't smoke marijuana, he said, "It Randall, the first person who was appre-
didn't seem to be harming them, so I gave hended in D.C. for growing marijuana for
into peer pressure and I tried it." At first his glaucoma. Randall went to court on a
nothing happened, good or bad, but he medical necessity defense, and won, and
was accepted. Then after using it several got the government to supply him with his
times, he was playing chess one time, and marijuana.
when he stood up after the game was over, The FDA finally agreed to hold a hearing
"It dawned on me I had been sitting for 30 for Rosenfeld, after which he heard them
minutes. For the past five years, I could say that his presentation was very eloquent
only sit for 10 minutes then stand for 10 and very convincing, and he would
minutes, because I had to stretch the mus- become the second person in the United
cles going over the tumors in my legs. I States to receive medical cannabis from the
realized I hadn't taken a pill in six hours. federal government. "I was stunned; it
Just then someone handed me a joint. I took me 10 years but I won, and a month-
looked at it and thought, 'This is the only and-a-half later I got my first tin can (of
thing I've done differently.'" marijuana)."
He conducted some experiments on his His prescription calls for 10 joints a day,
own, recalling, "I would use it for three and he hasn't had a tumor since age 20-
weeks and get miraculously better. My 1/2. He is now 65 and a stockbroker, and
intake of narcotics decreased by 50 percent said he doesn't have any side effects. Since
or 60 percent and the tumors had stopped first receiving his supply, he has been on a
growing. But I didn't want to believe that mission to teach the world about the ben-
it was the illegal medicine, so I stopped efits of medical cannabis. "If I can make
using it, and I went downhill. So I went something good come out of something
back to the narcotics for a week, then went bad (his bone disorder), then that's what
back on the marijuana. I did that three it's all about. To this day I still educate.
times until I was convinced that it was the I've helped millions of people worldwide
illegal drugs that were working best for understand the medical benefits of
me." cannabis, and it makes me feel better."
The problem was that at this point
Rosenfeld had to buy the marijuana on his For more information, call (954) 689-
own, but his friends were getting busted, 6874. In addition, Irvin Rosenfeld has written
and he figured it was a matter of time a book titled, “My Medicine – How I
before he was, too. "But I wasn't a crimi- Convinced the U.S. Government To Supply My
nal, I was a patient. My doctor could give Marijuana and Helped Launch a National
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