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The Clinical Journal of PainNew! Read an Accredited Medical Marijuana curriculum for health care professionals professionals with chapter contributions and other content edited by Dr. Aggarwal. Click the journal or the icon below, click ‘syllabus’, and choose “Medical Marijuana – Medical, Legal, Social and Political Issues” in the drop-down menu to see section headings. The Accrediting body for this material, the Massachusetts Medical Society, publishes the leading medical journal The New England Journal of Medicine.


 

Published Paper:

Commentary- Use of cannabinoids in cancer care: palliative care.  Current Oncology  (2016)


Published Paper:

Cannabinoid Integrative Health 101 -- prepared remarks for opening of 2016 Virtual Cannabis Health Summit -- (Produced by Green Flower Media, Delivered January 23, 2016, Pleasanton, CA)


Published Paper:Unpacking the Nixon Tapes: The Meaning of Marijuana for the U.S. Presidential Administration Which Created and Placed It in Schedule I

Health Scientist Blacklisting and the Meaning of Marijuana in the Oval Office in the Early 1970s (2015) Unpacking the Nixon Tapes: The Meaning of Marijuana for the U.S. Presidential Administration Which Created and Placed It in Schedule I


Published Paper:

Medicalization of Marijuana JAMA November 12, 2014


Published Paper:

Initiating pain and palliative care outpatient services for the suburban underserved in
Montgomery County, Maryland: Lessons learned at the NIH Clinical Center and MobileMed (2015)


Published Chapter:

Excerpt on Cannabis and Entheogens in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
In Palliative Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: From Diagnosis to Bereavement, edited by David Oliver, Gian Domenico Borasio, Wendy Johnston, May 2014.

Gregory T. Carter, Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, Michael Weiss, and Richard S. Bedlack


Published Paper:

Point/Counterpoint Medical Marijuana for Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (2014)

Sunil K. Aggarwal and Gregory T. Carter


Published Paper:

Cannabis for Symptom Control #279

Journal of Palliative Medicine. Vol. 17. No. 5

Sunil K. Aggarwal and Craig Blinderman


Huffington Post

Be sure to read Dr. Aggarwal's articles on his Huffington Post Blog here.


Alternet

Read the 5 Biggest Lies from Anti-Pot Propagandist Kevin Sabet in Alternet published August 8, 2013 by Dr. Sunil Kumar Aggarwal. The piece, Kevin Sabet at Berkeley, is supplemental material.


Dr. Sunil Kumar AggarwalDr. Sunil Kumar Aggarwal's Doctoral Dissertation entitled:

The Medical Geography of Cannabinoid Botanicals in Washington State: Access, Delivery, and Distress (Accepted August 22, 2008)

©Copyright 2008 

Published Paper:
From 32 Ounces to Zero: A Medical Geographic Study of Dispensing a Cultivated Batch of “Plum” Cannabis Flowers to Medical Marijuana Patients in Washington State

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.

Aggarwal et al. 2013. 45:2, 141-155


Dr. Sunil AggarwalPublished Paper:

Distress, Coping, and Drug Law Enforcement in a Series of Patients Using Medical Cannabis

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Aggarwal et al. 2013;201: 292-303 doi: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318288d333 April 2013.


Published Paper:

'Tis in our nature: taking the human-cannabis relationship seriously in health science and public policy

Front Psychiatry. 2013;4:6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00006. Epub 2013 Feb 26.

Sunil K. Aggarwal, MD, PhD


Dr. Sunil AggarwalPublished Paper:

Prospectively Surveying Health-Related Quality of Life and Symptom Relief in a Lot-Based Sample of Medical Cannabis-Using Patients in Urban Washington State Reveals Managed Chronic Illness and Debility

Supplementary Material

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine e-published ahead of print August 10, 2012

S. K. Aggarwal, G. T. Carter, M. D. Sullivan, C. ZumBrunnen, R. Morrill, and J. D. Mayer


Published Paper:

Cannabinergic Pain Medicine: A Concise Clinical Primer and Survey of Randomized-controlled Trial Results

Clinical Journal of Pain e-published ahead of print February 23, 2012. Published in print in Feb 2013 issue–featured on journal cover

Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, MD, PhD


Dr. Sunil AggawalPublished Paper:

Psychoactive Substances and the Political Ecology of Mental Distress

Harm Reduction Journal published online January 18, 2012

Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, MD, PhD, Gregory T. Carter, MD, MS, Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD, Craig ZumBrunnen, PhD Richard Morrill, PhD, Jonathan D. Mayer, PhD


Published Paper:

Clearing the Air: What the Latest Supreme Court Decision Regarding Medical Marijuana Really Means

American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Volume 22, Number 5, September/October 2005

Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, BS, BA, University of Washington, Department of Medicine and Department of Geography, Seattle, Washington., Gregory T. Carter, MD, Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.Jeffrey J. Steinborn, LLB, Law Offices


Dr. Sunil AggarwalPublished Paper:

Cannabis and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Hypothetical and Practical Applications, and a Call for Clinical Trials

American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine published online May 3, 2010

Gregory T. Carter, MD, MS1, Mary E. Abood, PhD2, Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, PhD3, Michael D. Weiss, MD1,4,5


Published Chapter:

Cannabinoids and Neuroprotection
In The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis edited by Julie Holland, M.D. September 2010.

Sunil K. Aggarwal, MD, PhD and Gregory T. Carter, MD, MSMD


Dr. Sunil AggarwalPublished Paper:
Cannabis in Palliative Medicine: Improving Care and Reducing Opioid-Related Morbidity

American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine 28(5) 297-303 2011

Gregory T. Carter, MD, MS, Aaron M. Flanagan, MD, Mitchell Earleywine, PhD, Donald I. Abrams, MD, Sunil K. Aggarwal, MD, PhD, Lester Grinspoon, MD


Published Paper:
Cannabis: A Commonwealth Medicinal Plant, Long Suppressed, Now at Risk of Monopolization
Denver University Law Review, Vol. 88, 2010
Dr.Sunil Kumar Aggarwal MD,PhD, Physician-Scientist and Medical Geographer


Dr. Sunil AggarwalEditorial:

Reclassify Marijuana

A point/counterpoint discussion on the reclassification of Medical Marijuana, written for pain.com and now hosted by Dannemiller 11/30/2009

Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, MD, PhD, Medical Scientist Training Program University of Washington


Published Paper:
Medicinal Use of Cannabis in the United States: Historical Perspectives, Current Trends, and Future Directions

Journal of Opioid Management 5.3, May/June 2009

Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, MD, PhD, Gregory T. Carter, MD, MS, Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD, Craig ZumBrunnen, PhD Richard Morrill, PhD, Jonathan D. Mayer, PhD


Dr. Sunil AggarwalPublished Paper:
Characteristics of Patients with Chronic Pain Accessing Treatment with Medical Cannabis in Washington State

Journal of Opioid Management 5.5, September/October 2009

Sunil K. Aggarwal, PhD, MD Candidate, Gregory T. Carter, MD, MS, Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD, Craig ZumBrunnen, PhD, Richard Morrill, PhD, Jonathan D. Mayer, PhD


Published Paper:
Dosing Medical Marijuana: Rational Guidelines on Trial in Washington State

Sunil K. Aggarwal, MS III, PhC, BS, BA, third-year medical student, Muraco Kyashna-Tocha, Cultural Anthropologist; Ethnobotanist, and Gregory T. Carter, MD, MS, Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine Sunil K. Aggarwal, Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)/MD/PhD program, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.


Dr. Sunil AggarwalCourse Paper:
Embodying Forbidden Cannabinated States

Sunil Kumar Aggarwal
Geography 573
Urban Political Geography: Sexuality and Space
Professor Michael Brown


Open Letter:
Open Letter to President Obama For Presidential Pardon for Bernie Ellis’ Felonization for Medical Cannabis Distribution

Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, MD, PhD

Included in Mr. Ellis’s Pardon Application


Dr. Sunil AggarwalDr. Aggarwal’s Manifesto for Physicians for Social Responsibility:
Structural Violence, Human Dignity, Drugs, Energy Policy In An Age of Dangerous Substances


"The Medical Geography of Cannabinoid Botanicals in Washington State: Access,
Delivery, and Distress"

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Washington, 2008 Program Authorized to Offer Degree: Geography,University of Washington

©Copyright 2008
Abstract: The Medical Geography of Cannabinoid Botanicals in Washington State: Access, Delivery, and Distress