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.
Gary Carter, NY Mets great and Baseball Hall of Famer, dies at 57 after battle with brain cancer. Gary Carter, pictured here at Shea Stadium being inducted into Mets Hall of Fame, died Thursday at 57. The game is over for The Kid. Mets Hall-of-Fame catcher Gary Carter lost his battle with brain cancer, dying Thursday at a hospital near his home in Palm Beach Gardens where he had been receiving hospice care for the last week.