Dr. Julie Holland has spent ten years as weekend psychiatrist at New York City's famed Bellevue Hospital.Her latest collection of essays, "The Pot Book: a Complete Guide to Cannabis. Its Role in Medicine, Politics, Science, and Culture" is an indictment of the federal policy that treats cannabis as a pariah. She states that the word, "marijuana" was coined as a slur in 1937 by out of work feds seeking to marginalize, then criminalize the "Negroes" using the plant as medicine since being interned as slaves by the Founding Fathers.
She was interviewed by Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation, Science Friday.
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