WPEC – CBS12.com WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.  –  There is a growing trend of seniors lighting up and smoking marijuana because they believe it is better than their prescription drugs, with less dangerous side effects. “I call it the new don’t ask, don’t tell,” said Amy Cavinaugh. Cavinaugh started using marijuana five years ago after...

By David Jay Brown Raphael Mechoulam, Ph.D., is the Lionel Jacobson Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of   Jerusalem, where he has been working on cannabinoid chemistry (a term he coined) for over forty years. Throughout this time Dr. Mechoulam and colleagues have made some of the most important contributions to the field...