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.
âIn The Heat of the Nightâ. Share this: I am a huge fan of the In the Heat of the Night TV series. I have been an officer for 31 years and a police chief for 13. This show was so close to real police life. I know that Carroll O'Connor, who played Chief Gillespie, and his son, who played Lt. Jamison, are dead.