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.
Gene Wilder dies due to complications from Alzheimer's aged 83. I hope he's in a world of pure imagination. Daily Variety said that Wilder âhad been diagnosed with non-Hodgkinâs lymphoma in 1989.â His first wife, Gilda Radner, died of ovarian cancer. But he didnât die of the lymphoma, his family said. His family confirmed his death to The Associated Press: BREAKING: Gene Wilder, star of âWilly Wonkaâ and Mel Brooks comedies, is dead at 83, his family says. â AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) August 29, 2016.