Pot Up The Pooper: Government Doc Crafts Weed Suppositories
The federal government's designated pot doctor has crafted pot suppositories for stoners to insert rectally, Legalization Nation has learned. The surprising fact appears in Dr. Julie Holland's new non-fiction paperback The Pot Book: A Complete Guide To Cannabis coming out this month on Park Street Press. Dr. Holland is a psychiatrist specializing in drugs and the brain, a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, and author of Ecstasy: The Complete Guide. She spent three years researching The Pot Book, a hefty 551-page primer on the risks and rewards of the plant, written in conjunction with 52 doctors, academics, writers and thinkers including Michael Pollan, Neal Pollack, and Douglas Rushkoff.
Inside The Pot Book, Holland describes how the federal government has four, little-known medical cannabis patients and a pot doctor who grows weed in the country's one legal farm. The government's pot doctor Dr. Mahmoud A. ElSohly Ph.D. has patents out on drug testing methods, as well some interesting ideas about how to administer the drug: anally.
“Somehow he thought it would be a little easier,”Holland says. “I'm like 'Really?' It's kind of funny. You can't make this stuff up. He thinks it's the delivery way of the future. I don't know what his thinking is.”
Dr. ElSohly states in the book that rectal pot poppers mitigate dosage variability problems associated with eating pot.
“It’s an excellent preparation, a good product, but because it is a suppository, some people have a really hard time accepting it as a delivery system, although it is pharmaceutically acceptable and it’s been around for years,” ElSohly tells Holland in the book. “But it’s still not out there yet. The pharmaceutical company has it, and hopefully they’ll approve it before too long.”
ElSohly added: “It would be for the exact same indications that THC is good for. Right now it’s only approved for the nausea and vomiting of cancer patients and appetite stimulation in AIDS patients. But there are other indications that THC might be really useful for, things like glaucoma, pain—both neuropathy and arthritic pain—and in terms of a preoperative analgesic or antidepressant. There are just so many indications.”
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