Fred Gardner | O'Shaughnessy's

O’Shaughnessy’s Statement of Purpose

The first issue of O’Shaughnessy’s, Summer 2003, included this Statement of Purpose...

Mikuriya Asks Med Board to Drop Charges, Clarify Practice Standards

By Fred Gardner in O’Shaughnessy’s Summer 2003 (page one of the first issue) Lawyers...

Which Conditions are Patients Actually Treating With Cannabis?

By Fred Gardner in the first O’Shaughnessy’s (Summer 2003) Some California doctors who...

Which Conditions are Californians Actually Treating With Cannabis?

By Fred Gardner Some California doctors who have taken a special interest in their patients’...

‘Which Conditions are Californians Actually Using Cannabis to Treat?

By Fred Gardner in O’Shaughnessy’s, Summer 2003 (the first issue) Some California...

A Predecessor to the Indian Hemp Drug Commission Report

By Tod Mikuriya, MD, in O’Shaughnessy’s, Summer 2003 In the fall of 1871 the British government in India decided to investigate “the deleterious effects alleged to be produced by the abuse of ganja.” Inquiries were...

Prozac (Checking out the Lifeboat)

The time: a Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1994. The scene: an uncomfortably warm conference room in a Wenatchee, Washington motel. The air conditioning has been turned off at the request of a BBC documentary-maker....

Reforming Richmond: Michael Leedie’s POV

By Fred Gardner in the Anderson Valley Advertiser 8/25/93 Michael Leedie, the man who passed the bullhorn around at the Aug. 14 rally outside the gates of General Chemical in North Richmond, was wearing two hats (as the saying...

Richmond, CA: “A Major Disaster Area”

By Fred Gardner in the Anderson Valley Advertiser 8/18/93 Richmond, a city of 80,000 people on San Pablo Bay, is the site of vast chemical storage facilities and refineries. The population is half black –a lot of the...

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