Oregon Medical Marijuana Doctor Will Speak in Florida

Dr. Leveque will explain how he came to practice medicine, discussing several ways he was able to help people in his career.

Salem-News.com's Dr. Phil Leveque

(ORLANDO, Fla.) - Dr. Phil Leveque, Salem-News.com writer and also one of the most noted and educated physician/pharmacologist/forensic toxicologists in the world today, will speak at the University of Central Florida this week about medical marijuana, a subject drawing increasing attention from one side of the U.S. to the other.

During Dr. Leveque's talk on Wednesday, 100-200 people from a Florida Chapter of NORML are expected to attend.

When asked what they have to look forward to, he said he will speak to those in attendance about the various benefits of medical marijuana, something few doctors have more experience with.

Dr. Leveque's presentation will include a slideshow with figures from Storm Crow and the late Dr. Tod Mikuriya, a good friend of Leveque's, whose research is highly credited for the rapid advancements that medical cannabis has seen in recent years, particularly in California where Dr. Mikuriya was based.

He said this special presentation, "Will explain that medical marijuana is almost a first choice drug for a whole bunch of diseases."

Over the years, Dr. Phil Leveque has spoken to audiences at Portland State University, Mount Hood Community College, Clackamas Community College, University of Washington School of Medicine, and several other campuses.

He has been interviewed by Anderson Cooper, the LA Times Seattle Times, major papers in Vancouver, The New York Times, Washington Post, and major newspapers in Rome, Berlin, Norway, Russia and Japan.

Dr. Leveque will explain how he came to practice medicine, discussing several ways he was able to help people in his career.

He will share his knowledge of marijuana and the way it alleviates certain symptoms, and he will elaborate on how marijuana helps patients suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

He will also take questions regarding the interest in the prevalence of medical marijuana in ADD/ADHD and Autism, while discussing what some of the obstacles are that patients have had to overcome to obtain a medical marijuana permit in Oregon.

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Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor. Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines. Tim holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several others including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Serving the community in very real terms, Salem-News.com is the nation's only truly independent high traffic news Website. You can send Tim an email at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com

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Timoto February 6, 2011 11:17 pm (Pacific time)

I can be subscribed meloxicam, naproxen, muscle relaxers, Anti imflamitories etc...I never smoked weed until I was 34. Im sure its not good for me as the others are not as well. But when i feel reall bad. I will take a puff or two. Helps me more than any pill I can take and feel like a human being.

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