Robyn Twomey’s Medical Marijuana series
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Robyn Twomey is a freelance photographer based in San Francisco and also working out of Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Time, Fortune, New York Times Magazine, Wired and New York Magazine. In the fall of 2009, she was assigned by photo editor Scott Thode at Fortune Magazine to cover the medicinal marijuana gold rush in California for the article, Medical Marijuana’s High Society.
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limousine Saturday 12 June 2010
That’s pretty exciting!
DaveyBoy Wednesday 16 June 2010
I am prescribed Marinol for HIV/AIDS here in New York state but not allowed medical marihauna (I would be breaking the law). Marinol is a pharmaceutical made drug (synthetic) and is pure THC mixed with some sesame seed oil (I find a tea from natural pot plants is much gentler). Why am allowed THC this way, but not allowed to grow my own plants to harvest THC for cooking from plant material? Marinol is like $1,200.00 a month for my script, I could grow my own THC equivalent for $25/month (free if grown in back yard garden)! This is not fair, its forcing me to overpay for my medicine!
Salicylic acid can be obtained from the Willow tree (bark contains ). Am I not allowed to grow a Willow tree (to make tea from) as it may interfere with Aspirin’s business? Think of all the hard drugs made from poppies, yet my neighbor grows them in her fron yard (very pretty). It just does not make any sense I am allowed to have have expensive synthetic THC, but not allowed to have almost free natural THC I can grow myself.
Natural THC found in pot I find works better for me than the fake manmade stuff. I make tea to drink, butters (used for baking) and other edible products from marijuana. In the morning when I am feeling most sick, a hemp tea goes down easier than a big gelatin cap that tends to get soggy and can make me gag.