American Pain Society. Summary: The growing body of evidence that marijuana (cannabis) may be effective as a pain reliever has been expanded with publication of a new study in The Journal of Pain reporting that patients with nerve pain showed reduced pain intensity from smoking marijuana. Researchers examined whether marijuana produces analgesia for patients with neuropathic pain.
Ron O'Neal, whose role as a fashionable and fearless drug dealer in the 1972 blaxploitation film Superfly made him a cult hero among many African Americans, has died. He was 66. Mr. O'Neal, who suffered from pancreatic cancer, died Wednesday in Los Angeles.
(Learn how and when to remove these template messages) Shaunie O'Neal (born Vaâshaundya Karlette Nelson; November 27, 1974) is the current executive producer of VH-1âs reality TV series, Basketball Wives and Basketball Wives LA, and is the former wife of NBA center Shaquille OâNeal.