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.
This is not by accident. Wondering how a father could leave his son when he was 6 months old, O'Neal treats him as if he's dead. Claiming he lost contact only because he was in prison, then on drugs, Toney says he is alive and sorry. O'Neal's people claim Toney is only looking for money and fame.