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 at Reggie's Rock Club, Chicago, June 12, 2014. Johnny Winter died yesterday, Wednesday, July 16, at his hotel room in Zurich, Switzerland at the age of 70. The cause of death was not announced but he had seemed to be in very frail health when he appeared in Chicago a couple of times this year. Johnny was a key figure in the history of the blues.