Are Blacks Missing Out on the Medical Benefits of Weed?
High Society: Medical-marijuana experts say that cannabis can provide relief for many diseases affecting the black community, but the stigma of the drug keeps some folks away.
If you search “babies cured with cannabis” on YouTube, you come up with a plethora of emotional videos. There’s California’s Dr. William Courtney from 2013, using X-rays to show what he says is the cure of an 8-month-old baby suffering from a brain tumor with cannabis oil. Then there’s an excerptfrom the 2014 documentary The Culture High, in which California resident Jason David explains how a cannabis extract helped his child stop having literally hundreds of seizures a day.
But very few of the people in the pages of videos appear to be people of color.
“It’s time for us as a community to embrace this plant and understand what it means. We need to start helping our children,” says activist and entrepreneur...
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