Yesterday, the US Drug Enforcement Agency announced that it plans to move cannabis from Schedule 1 (the most restrictive rules on drugs)...

Last month I went to CannMed 23, a conference about all aspects of medical cannabis production, research, and therapeutic use. Hinanit...

A new article about Michelle and our research has been published in Cannabis Health News. It's a well written summary by Sarah Sinclair,...

Hinanit and I were recently interviewed for the publication Cannabis Patient Care. The interview covers Michelle's story as well as our...

In summer 2020, Michelle and I decided to fund research into cannabis and ovarian cancer. There were no existing studies that accounted...

I just discovered this message from Michelle in the "Drafts" section of the blog, written in summer 2021. Apparently, she started it to...

Thank you to everyone who has been sending me news reports about Biden's announcement pardoning those Federally convicted of marijuana...

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a biochemically distinct subtype of cancer cells that seem to be particularly important in tumor growth and...

The Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act has passed in the US House of Representatives with strong bipartisan...

I realize that I've been absent from this space for far longer than I promised, and I apologize. I've been struggling with motivation...

As you well know from reading this blog and watching her movie, Michelle was intensely frustrated by the paucity of rigorous research on...

Dear friends, it’s been been far too long since I’ve posted here. There are a number of things that I’ve been wanting to share for...

Michelle's obituary is now online at the Santa Barbara Independent, and will be in this week's print issue. I wanted to share here an...

Six years ago today, in the pre-dawn darkness of an Oxford winter, Michelle awoke screaming with pain in her abdomen. Convinced it was...

It has been 6 weeks since Michelle said farewell to this world. I am still grieving terribly, even though she is in my heart and giving...

On Sunday afternoon Michelle threw her last party. A small group of family and close friends gathered in our back yard, and over a couple...

Unfortunately the internal bile stint didn't work. I went back to UCLA 2 weeks ago for an external bile drain, which should have been...

Last Tuesday I had a telemedicine “second opinion” consultation with Dr. Konecny, an oncologist at UCLA. He thought that my failing liver...

I wish this post was four decades too soon. I'd even settle for four years too early. But unfortunately sharing my "Dying Wishes" blog...

I have not written in weeks because there was just a dribble of this and that, nothing warranting a blog post. I will get into the bits...