Dr. Peter Grinspoon

Trump considers reclassifying marijuana as less dangerous drug: report Trump is weighing whether to remove marijuana from the list of Schedule I controlled substances and make it a Schedule III drug.

I'm on @FoxNews explaining why #cannabis rescheduling is a win for all of us on all levels -- it will help us understand potential harms, benefits, & how to treat patients more effectively (which means fewer opioids and NSAIDs both of which can be lethal)
www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-c...

Reducing the Harm of Urine Drug Screening in Pregnancy Ordering clinical laboratory testing for a patient is a standard practice that enables clinicians to gain a clearer picture of their patient’s health. Although the choice to request such tests is inte...

Important: we have to stop preferentially screening black women for #cannabis use during pregnancy (with drug tests), and we have to stop separating them from their newborns if positive -- this is medicine gone amok and causing more harm than good.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Exclusive | Trump Weighs Reclassifying Marijuana as Less Dangerous Drug The president told donors earlier this month that he was interested in reclassifying the drug.

This is huge (and shocking -- Trump doing something that isn't related to looting the government for his own personal gain, and that of his allies...though he does think it will help him with young votors and that is main motivation)
#cannabis
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

YouTube video by Peter Grinspoon The TRUTH About Xanax and Valium You Never Knew

Please check out my YouTube video:
"The truth about valium and xanax that you never knew"
Dangerous drugs, they become "forever drugs", there are alternatives (though some people obviously need them...)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=toc_...

Opinion | Data shows a new remedy for the opioid crisis Counties with easy access to weed have far fewer opioid deaths. That’s not a coincidence.

Data shows a new remedy for the opioid crisis
Counties with easy access to weed have far fewer opioid deaths. That’s not a coincidence. (paywalled)
#cannabis #opioids
(some of us have been saying this for decades...)
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

An Argument for Decriminalizing Opioids Lives would be saved.

Check out my new video on the urgent need to decriminalize opioids, following on the success of #cannabis legalization. People are mostly overdosing/dying from ILLEGAL opioids. Time to wind down the War on Drugs (which we are losing).
drpetergrinspoon.substack.com/p/an-argumen...

CVS and MGB want to join forces to expand primary care in Mass. - The Boston Globe The effort would encompass 37 CVS locations in regions where primary care is particularly hard to obtain.

Professional suggestion: get a HUGE life insurance policy before getting primary care at CVS. My hospital, Mass. General Brigham is starving & pressuring the primary care doctors, so they leave, and now is replacing them with nurses at CVS minute clinic...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/b...

An Argument for Decriminalizing Opioids Lives would be saved.

My latest blog:
"An argument for decriminalizing opioids".
We HAVE to end the losing War on Drugs.
Arresting people, instead of treating them, inhumane and ineffective. We can learn a lot from #cannabis legalization which has been a success.
drpetergrinspoon.substack.com/p/an-argumen...

An Argument for Decriminalizing Opioids Lives would be saved.

My latest blog:
"An argument for decriminalizing opioids".
We HAVE to end the losing War on Drugs.
Arresting people, instead of treating them, inhumane and ineffective. We can learn a lot from #cannabis legalization which has been a success.
drpetergrinspoon.substack.com/p/an-argumen...

Cannabis Cuts Migraine in First Placebo-Controlled Trial In the first placebo-controlled study of vaporized cannabis for acute migraine, patients report greater relief from pain and other symptoms than those receiving a placebo.

In 1915 Sir William Osler, the father of modern medicine, said that #cannabis was the best treatment for #migraine; now there is a placebo-controlled study to demonstrate this.

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

YouTube video by Peter Grinspoon Kratom: Natural Pain Relief of Gas Station Heroin?

Please check out my latest video on #kratom, the natural herb that millions of people use for #addiction and #chronicpain but which some experts think is the last thing we need (i.e., another addictive substance) during an overdose epidemic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWEP...

Why Is Medical Cannabis Missing From Med School Curriculum? Medical Cannabis is available in 48 states. But only 14 states offer education in medical schools and colleges, leaving many future prescribers ill-prepared to counsel patients.

I've been saying this for decades! We have a critical shortage of helpful, practical, reality-based medical #cannabis education in medical schools (including about the Endocannabinoid System) and this is harming and alienating patients.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Clinical and psychosocial changes in adults with opioid use disorder and chronic pain using medical cannabis: a brief report - Journal of Cannabis Research Background Medical cannabis (MC) is approved for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) in Pennsylvania, but little is known about how MC impacts illicit opioid use or the clinical and psychosocia...

medical #cannabis 'treatment associated with reductions in pain severity & interference & improvements in quality of life & sleep, but not in illicit opioid use or cravings in adults with chronic pain receiving buprenorphine' for opioid #addiction
jcannabisresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

YouTube video by Peter Grinspoon Kratom: Natural Pain Relief of Gas Station Heroin?

Please check out my latest video on #kratom, the natural herb that millions of people use for #addiction and #chronicpain but which some experts think is the last thing we need (i.e., another addictive substance) during an overdose epidemic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWEP...

Effectiveness of Full Spectrum Cannabis Extracts in the Treatment of Chronic Pain: An Open Label Study The aim of this work was to assess the effectiveness of full-spectrum cannabis (THC and CBD) extracts as adjuvants in the treatment of chronic pain. This is a prospective, open label, longitudinal ...

#cannabis was effective for chronic pain
additionally,
"23 subjects reduced or discontinued other analgesics and/or anti-inflammatory drugs during the trial. Adverse effects were mild and reversible."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Kratom: Beneficial Botanical or Dangerous Drug? Depends on who you speak with…

#kratom
Helpful or harmful?
What is it?
Does it help with #chronic pain? #opioid #addiction
Or, is it just another drug to misuse?
Check out my blog
drpetergrinspoon.substack.com/p/kratom-ben...

Acute and chronic effects of medicinal cannabis use on anxiety and depression in a prospective cohort of patients new to cannabis Medicinal cannabis has mixed evidence for treating anxiety and depression, yet patients frequently use it as a treatment. This observational study eva…

'Significant decreases from baseline in anxiety and depression were observed [with #cannabis] with scores dropping below clinically significant levels within 3 months of initiation...sustained reductions in overall symptom severity over a 6-month period.'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Kratom: Beneficial Botanical or Dangerous Drug? Depends on who you speak with…

#kratom
Helpful or harmful?
What is it?
Does it help with #chronic pain? #opioid #addiction
Or, is it just another drug to misuse?
Check out my blog
drpetergrinspoon.substack.com/p/kratom-ben...

Frontiers | Cannabis Use and Resting State Functional Connectivity in the Aging Brain Several lines of evidence suggest that older adults (aged 65+) sharply increased their cannabis use over the last decade, highlighting a need to understand t...

#Cannabis may affect the brain differently as we age; it might be harmful in adolescents but it could help facilitate cognitive health in older adults (this has not been definitively proven yet but...interesting study).

www.frontiersin.org/journals/agi...

Taking the measure of legal pot — Harvard Gazette Researchers detail what we know about consequences for revenue and health — and what we still need to find out.

Several opinions about whether legalizing #cannabis was a good idea, including mine which is...of course it was (though it hasn't been flawless, and we certainly can lower harms). No one (credible) is arguing to recriminalize it...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Opinion | Legal Marijuana’s Disastrous Legacy President Trump should halt Biden’s attempt to make pot a ‘Schedule III’ substance.

An unfortunate take by the @WSJ, not only because most of it is wildly inaccurate, with cherry-picked facts, but also because it ignores the social justice benefits of #cannabis legalization; no one is calling to recriminalize -- it has been a success.
www.wsj.com/opinion/lega...

‘It’s everywhere’: Intoxicating hemp products, easily accessible in Mass., are a growing health and business problem - The Boston Globe Cannabis retailer INSA bought dozens of hemp products off the shelf and found that they’re often mislabeled, marketed to kids, and more potent than allowed.

I agree that most of these hemp-derived products (except for the non-intoxicating ones...) are a menace: unregulated, untested. The legal #cannabis market is so much safer and restricts teen access.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/23/b...

Taking the measure of legal pot — Harvard Gazette Researchers detail what we know about consequences for revenue and health — and what we still need to find out.

Several opinions about whether legalizing #cannabis was a good idea, including mine which is...of course it was (though it hasn't been flawless, and we certainly can lower harms). No one (credible) is arguing to recriminalize it...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics Some people believe chatbots like ChatGPT can provide an affordable alternative to in-person psychedelic-assisted therapy. Many experts say it’s a bad idea.

We are done for....
#Psychedelics
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/01/1...

Clinical and psychosocial changes in adults with opioid use disorder and chronic pain using medical cannabis: a brief report - Journal of Cannabis Research Background Medical cannabis (MC) is approved for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) in Pennsylvania, but little is known about how MC impacts illicit opioid use or the clinical and psychosocia...

Article on use of #cannabis for patients with #chronic pain on Suboxone for opioid use diorder.
Helps with pain and sleep without measurable harms.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

YouTube video by Peter Grinspoon The TRUTH About Xanax and Valium You Never Knew

Please check out my YouTube video:
"The truth about valium and xanax that you never knew"
Dangerous drugs, they become "forever drugs", there are alternatives (though some people obviously need them...)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=toc_...

Absolutely iconic poster from #cannabis legalization movement, from about 40 years ago -- great quote from Spinoza. At the bottom, inscribed, "to Lester Grinspoon"
#marijuana #cannabiscommunity

Marijuana Use Among Older Adults Climbs to New High Researchers encourage doctor-patient communication to minimize potential health risks

Article by @AARP forgot to mention that often seniors take #cannabis instead of other medications which can be more dangerous...

www.aarp.org/health/drugs...

Who Will Own the ‘God Molecule’? Psychedelics devotees are racing biotech entrepreneurs to turn 5-MeO-DMT, one of the world’s most powerful drugs, into a pharmaceutical.

very compelling magazine feature nymag.com/intelligence...

Harvard study of nearly 50,000 women over 30 years finds coffee drinking linked to healthy aging, longevity: It seems to offer 'protective benefits' "Moderate coffee intake may offer some protective benefits when combined with regular exercise, a healthy diet and avoiding smoking," researcher says.

Huge study, #coffee drinking linked to longevity..

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/3...