Lester Grinspoon

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According to Wikipedia, Lester Grinspoon was an American psychiatrist and long-standing associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School best known for his groundbreaking works on the science and social policy of cannabis, psychedelics and other drugs, and for his commitment to changing harmful drug policies. He concurrently served as a senior psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston, Massachusetts, for 40 years. Grinspoon was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Psychiatric Association. He was founding editor of The American Psychiatric Association Annual Review and Harvard Mental Health Letter. Grinspoon was editor of Harvard Mental Health Letter for fifteen years.

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Lester Grinspoon's Published Works

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Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered (1979) (305)
Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine (1993) (274)
Can drugs be used to enhance the psychotherapeutic process? (1986) (180)
Psychiatry update : American Psychiatric Association annual review (1983) (167)
Cocaine : a drug and its social evolution (1979) (119)
The use of cannabis as a mood stabilizer in bipolar disorder: anecdotal evidence and the need for clinical research. (1998) (104)
Amphetamines in the Treatment of Hyperkinetic Children. (1973) (93)
Marihuana as medicine. A plea for reconsideration. (1995) (66)
Schizophrenia: pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy (1972) (55)
Coca and cocaine as medicines: an historical review. (1981) (53)
Cannabis in Palliative Medicine: Improving Care and Reducing Opioid-Related Morbidity (2011) (52)
Psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy in chronic schizophrenia. (1968) (47)
Immunologic studies in schizophrenic and control subjects. (1980) (29)
Limit setting as a corrective ego experience. (1963) (24)
Autonomic arousal in good and poor premorbid schizophrenics. (1970) (23)
Blood coagulation in pregnancy: proconvertin and prothrombin, and the hypercoagulable state. (1956) (23)
The war on drugs--a peace proposal. (1994) (22)
ADVERSE EFFECTS OF COCAINE: SELECTED ISSUES (1981) (21)
A follow-up of deinstitutionalized chronic patients four years after discharge. (1981) (21)
Medical marihuana in a time of prohibition (1999) (21)
Drug Control in a Free Society (1985) (21)
The psychedelic drug therapies. (1981) (20)
The therapist variable. (1971) (18)
Psychedelics as catalysts of insight-oriented psychotherapy (2001) (18)
Marijuana, the AIDS wasting syndrome, and the U.S. government. (1995) (17)
Effects of marijuana (1983) (17)
Serum creatine phosphokinase and aldolase activity in acute schizophrenic patients and their relatives. (1970) (16)
Ritualistic use of fluoxetine by a former substance abuser. (1990) (15)
Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered@@@Sacred Plants, Consciousness, and Healing: Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives@@@Entheogens and the Future of Religion (1999) (15)
Autonomic and Psychomotor Correlates of Premorbid Adjustment in Schizophrenia (1965) (15)
Long-term treatment of chronic schizophrenia. A preliminary report. (1967) (14)
Word frequency measures of verbal disorders in schizophrenia. (1969) (13)
PHARMACOTHERAPY COMBINED WITH OTHER TREATMENT METHODS. (1963) (13)
On the pharmaceuticalization of marijuana (2001) (12)
Alternative to the back ward: the quarterway house. (1981) (12)
LSD Reconsidered: Should clinical research be resumed? (1981) (11)
Marijuana addiction. (1997) (11)
Abnormalities in Skin Potential Fluctuations During the Sleep of Acute Schizophrenic Patients (1970) (10)
The threat of nuclear war. (1982) (10)
Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine: Revised and Expanded Edition (1997) (10)
PHENOBARBITAL AND ATROPINE IN COMBINATION, AN ACTIVE CONTROL SUBSTANCE FOR PHENOTHIAZINE RESEARCH. (1964) (9)
A follow-up study of intensively treated chronic schizophrenic patients. (1969) (9)
Schizophrenia, oligospermia, and the phenothiazines. (1967) (9)
On the future of cannabis as medicine (2007) (8)
A surfeit of surveys: escalating data demands on community mental health centers. (1979) (8)
The Future of Medical Marijuana (1999) (7)
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT (2007) (7)
Testing Psychotherapies and Drug Therapies: The Case of Psychedelic Drugs (1990) (7)
Behavioral correlates of the guessing game. Side effects and double-blind studies. (1966) (7)
The behavioral effects of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in chronic schizophrenia (2004) (6)
Changes in circulating eosinophils in juvenile diabetics in response to epinephrine, ACTH and hypoglycemia. (1953) (5)
A study of the frequency of achlorhydria among Japanese in Los Angeles. (1959) (5)
The Amphetamines: Medical Uses and Health Hazards (1977) (5)
SIDE EFFECTS AND DOUBLE-BLIND STUDIES. I. A CLINICAL COMPARISON BETWEEN THIORIDAZINE HYDROCHLORIDE AND A COMBINATION OF PHENOBARBITAL AND ATROPINE SULFATE. (1964) (5)
Whither Medical Marijuana? (2000) (5)
The effect of sensory input on the reaction time of schizophrenic patients of good and poor premorbid history (1965) (4)
Introduction of a part-time hospitalization program into an acute psychiatric-treatment service. (1962) (4)
Changing practices: a plea and some predictions. (1960) (4)
The Harmfulness Tax: A Proposal for Regulation and Taxation of Drugs (1987) (3)
Cannabis, the Wonder Drug (1999) (3)
Marijuana as Medicine-Reply (1995) (3)
Telemetered heart rate and skin potential of a chronic schizophrenic patient especially during periods of hallucinations and periods of talking. (1971) (3)
Marihuana: la medicina prohibida (1997) (3)
An extreme situation on a chronic schizophrenic treatment ward. (1965) (3)
A CANNABIS ODYSSEY (2010) (2)
The utility of psychotherapy in schizophrenia. (1969) (2)
Book ReviewThe New Psychiatry: How modern psychiatrists think about their patients, theories, diagnoses, drugs, psychotherapies, power, training, families, and private lives (1985) (2)
The effect of social feedback on chronic schizophrenic patients. (1970) (2)
Perception and Knowledge: Reflections on Psychological and Spiritual Learning in the Psychedelic Experience (2010) (2)
Behavioral and skin potential response correlations in chronic schizophrenic patients. (1969) (2)
Arguments for a Harmfulness Tax (1990) (2)
Fallout shelters and mental health. (1963) (1)
A NEW APPROACH TO THE HOSPITALIZATION OF THE MENTALLY ILL. (1963) (1)
Dr. Mills and Associates Reply (1983) (1)
Psychosocial constraints on the important decision-maker. (1969) (1)
The observers and the observed: the effects of doing ratings on staff-patient contact patterns. (1966) (1)
Book ReviewMarihuana: Deceptive weed. (1973) (1)
Mental patients' knowledge of in-hospital rights. (1983) (1)
Opinion Piece: Medical Marihuana Reconsidered (1998) (1)
Marihuana: health hazards and medical benefits (1978) (1)
The Role of Psychiatry in War and Poverty (1973) (1)
The Long darkness: Psychological and moral perspectives on nuclear winter (1986) (1)
Drug control: three analogies. (1984) (1)
The harmfulness tax: a new approach to drug control. (1990) (1)
MARIJUANA AS MEDICINE. AUTHORS' REPLY (1995) (0)
Drug control in a free society: Solution or dissolution of the drug problem? (1985) (0)
Long term therapy of chronic schizophrenia; a reply by the authors. (1967) (0)
An alternative to the amobarbital interview. (1980) (0)
Contemporary Problems of Drug Abuse - IV. Sunday Morning (1973) (0)
Book ReviewThe Marihuana Conviction: A history of marihuana prohibition in the United States. (1975) (0)
Drug control in a free society: The historical direction of drug policy (1985) (0)
Cyclic Staff Responses to Chronic Schizophrenic Patients (1964) (0)
Drug Abuse Policy and Social Attitudes to Risk-Taking (1984) (0)
The range of human conflict: a symposium. (1966) (0)
Books received (2005) (0)
Drug control in a free society: Bibliography (1985) (0)
INVIVO STUDIES ON PSORALEN IN RELATION TO GROWTH, ORGAN WEIGHT AND INCORPORATION OF p32 IN ALBINO RATS (0)
Why drug policy is so harsh. (1983) (0)
Marihuana and Medicine. Gabriel G. Nahas , Kenneth M. Sutin , David Harvey , Stig Agurell , Nicholas Pace , Robert Cancro (1999) (0)
Drug control in a free society: The meanings of addiction and dependence (1985) (0)
Chapter 6 Therapeutic Uses (2017) (0)
Editorial: Medical Cannabis: The Patient's and the Doctor's Dilemmas (2000) (0)
Marihuana: reply to discussants. (1970) (0)
Uses of marijuana: Solomon H. Snyder, M.D. Oxford University Press, New York, 1971. 127 pp. Hardback, $5.95; paperback, $1.95 (1973) (0)
Chapter 5 Adverse Effects and Their Treatment (2017) (0)
Missed Opportunities? Beneficial Uses of Illicit Drugs (2020) (0)
Conflicting staff and family demands on schizophrenic patients. (1968) (0)
Drug control in a free society: Questions of risk and liberty (1985) (0)
Marihuana. Zakázaná medicína (1996) (0)
Drug control in a free society: Varieties of drug control (1985) (0)
Book ReviewThe Marihuana Problem in the City of New York. (1973) (0)
A day care program on an inpatient service. (1963) (0)
Psychiatry : American Psychiatric Association annual review (1982) (0)
Book ReviewMarijuana as Medicine (1982) (0)
The Council on Research and Development (1978) (0)
The harmfulness tax (2001) (0)
Writings by Contributors: A Selective Listing (1987) (0)
Lester Grinspoon Cannabis : Wonder Drug of the ' 90 s In September 1928 Alexander Fleming (0)

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