cannabisnews.com: O.C. Clinic Sees Pot as a Valid Treatment O.C. Clinic Sees Pot as a Valid Treatment Posted by CN Staff on February 17, 2004 at 09:13:45 PT By David Haldane, Times Staff Writer Source: Los Angeles Times Andy Kinnon recently walked into an Orange County doctor's office looking for relief. When he walked out an hour later, Kinnon said, he had just the thing he'd been seeking: a recommendation, on embossed white paper signed and dated by a physician, for all the marijuana he could smoke."I suffer from migraine headaches," Kinnon, 41, explained. "They're wicked — you have to shut out light and sound." For years he'd tried various remedies, none of which had worked. Finally, in 1996, Kinnon said, he discovered the one thing that helped ease the pain — cannabis, which he's been smoking ever since."I've tried everything else," Kinnon said. "Now I have the legal right to use it as medicine. These guys are folk heroes."The guys he's talking about are Drs. Phillip A. Denney and Robert E. Sullivan, who last week opened in a Lake Forest strip mall a medical practice devoted to recommending medical marijuana to patients.In focusing their entire practice on that narrow specialty, the pair joined a handful of doctors statewide — mostly in Northern California — openly promoting the treatment of a variety of ailments with cannabis, which California voters legalized with the approval of Proposition 215 in 1996. But both acknowledge they have also opened themselves to what they contend is police harassment and an array of challenges that they say have plagued many colleagues."I'm scared to death," Denney, 55, said Feb. 9, the day the office opened in a retail center just off Interstate 5 and Kinnon showed up to become their first patient. "I'm scared that the medical board will take away my license. I'm scared that the federal government will kick down my door and take me off to prison in handcuffs."His fear is not entirely unfounded. Snipped:Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/valid.htmSource: Los Angeles Times (CA)Author: David Haldane, Times Staff WriterPublished: February 17, 2004 Copyright: 2004 Los Angeles TimesContact: letters latimes.comWebsite: http://www.latimes.com/Related Articles & Web Sites: NORMLhttp://www.norml.org/Dr. Tod Mikuriyahttp://www.mikuriya.com/Medicinal Cannabis Research Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/research.htmMedical-Marijuana Evaluators Are In http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18330.shtmlDoctors Tread a Thin Line on Marijuana Advicehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17681.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #9 posted by FoM on February 17, 2004 at 19:37:17 PT ekim Much happiness and health to you too ekim. That is so sweet. There's nothing better in life then happiness and health. Dr. Russo is taking care of business and might not comment for a little while. He'll be back though. [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by ekim on February 17, 2004 at 19:28:42 PT Thank you FoM yes that is the story. Been thinking about these Doctors that give reconditions. The buzz is outsourcing cause it is now impacting the Tech jobs. Wonder if one of CA residents can go to Kinko's and do a CK up on line with one of these Docs. as CA is a long State and it would save travel. I wonder how the outsourcing to other countries gets around the law of having to see in person to have a diagnose.Maybe Ethan might have something to say about how ones gets the inhaler.Much happiness and health to you and all FoM http://marijuananews.com [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by goneposthole on February 17, 2004 at 18:48:32 PT Those two doctors have a lot of guts Don't they know that marijuana is illegal? I guess they know what works.I hear Mr. Kinnon on the migraines and blocking out light and sound. Migraines consume you and drive you to distraction. A battering ram is being used on the wall now. [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by jose melendez on February 17, 2004 at 18:07:18 PT you must be joking Excuse me, maryy, but don't you ALREADY have lots of overseas pharmacy info in your LaMaRr420 spam box? [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by FoM on February 17, 2004 at 17:19:40 PT maryy I don't know if the question you are asking is one that can be answered. Is it legal to buy drugs from other countries? I really have no idea. CNews is a news web site devoted to cannabis law reform. I'm sorry but I don't even have a web site to suggest that can answer your question. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by maryy on February 17, 2004 at 16:28:54 PT: please help i am a 54 year old parapalegic who cannot afford the high cost of RX drugs and i am begging for any info concerning oversea pharmacies...email me or whatever you do will be greatly appreciated... [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by FoM on February 17, 2004 at 11:53:44 PT Thank You Doctors! Drs. Phillip A. Denney and Robert E. Sullivan are in the line of fire and I just want them to know how much I appreciate their efforts. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by Nuevo Mexican on February 17, 2004 at 11:14:05 PT The 'L.S. O' S. is on right now! Lying R' Us! The times they are a' changin!Great article, the genie is permanently out of the box on the 'miracle plant'! Keep these articles coming!Off topic:Don't worry about Kerry being President, Bush will start another war for his re-election, shoot himself in the foot, look like the worlds biggest idiot, and by comparison, make Kerry the War Hero who beat bush by a landslide! I still don't like kerry, as I've been blessed and screwed by his 'type' before, in personal friendships and business relationships, but looking at bush speaking to the National Guard makes one so disgusted, so sick, so embarrased, that JFK II (yes, its true, notice it hasn't been mentioned in the press, now it has!) John Forbes Kerry, at least I don't feel like vomiting when he speaks, and this is good!He looks like a shoe in, and should he be, (bush has a wellstone plan i'm sure, 'planes do crash you know'), you can count on a bush 'freak out'. If Kerry is really a threat to bush, he will be the subject of major mudslinging, if he's a bush plant, (washington insider, lobbyist, Skull and bones, yadda yadda yadda), bush will resort to spit wads. So far, i'm surprised at Carl Roves restraint.Well, pretzel boy is done mangling the English language, insulting our National Guard troops with his lying, manipulating ways, and a photo op for the election has been succesfully made! All on taxpayer funded money, preserving his war chest for the election. All done with the complicity of corporate media! Surprise!Commander AWOL! [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by FoM on February 17, 2004 at 10:49:07 PT News Brief from The Associated Press February 17, 2004LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) - Two doctors opened an Orange County clinic devoted to recommending medical marijuana as a valid treatment.By focusing their entire practice on pot therapy, Dr. Phillip A. Denney and Dr. Robert E. Sullivan joined a handful of doctors statewide who openly promote cannabis for treatment of a variety of ailments. They opened their Lake Forest office last week.California voters legalized medical marijuana use by passing Proposition 215 in 1996.Andy Kinnon walked out of the Denney/Sullivan clinic last week with a physician-signed recommendation for all the marijuana he could smoke."I suffer from migraine headaches," Kinnon, 41, said. "They're wicked, you have to shut out light and sound. I've tried everything else. Now I have the legal right to use it as medicine. These guys are folk heroes."Denney and Sullivan said they realize they will now be subject to what they call police harassment and an array of challenges that have plagued their colleagues."I'm scared to death," Denney, 55, said. "I'm scared that the medical board will take away my license. I'm scared that the federal government will kick down my door and take me off to prison in handcuffs."Dr. William Eidelman, an alternative-medicine specialist who until recently practiced in Santa Monica, had his license suspended last year after undercover sheriff's deputies posing as patients said he had recommended cannabis without sufficient medical cause.Eidelman, who estimates he has issued more than 4,000 recommendations for medical marijuana since 1998, denies the allegation and is fighting the suspension before an administrative law judge in Los Angeles.Denney and Sullivan say each of their patients is given a thorough physical examination.The doctors' signed recommendations provide a degree of legal protection to patients who are caught by police with marijuana in their possession."We're just trying to provide a service that nobody else is providing," Denney said. "We'd be very happy if nobody came to see us because they could get this from their family physician."Copyright: 2004 The Associated Press Medicinal Cannabis Research Links [ Post Comment ] Post Comment