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.
Johnny Winter, blues guitarist, dies aged 70. Legendary blues guitarist Johnny Winter has died aged 70. The famed musician died in a hotel room in Zurich, Switzerland on Wednesday. The news was reported by Jenda Derringer, wife of former bandmate Rick Derringer, and confirmed by Winter's representative, Carla Parisi, on Thursday.