Cannabinologist Library and Documents
Library Items
New! 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)
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
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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
Be sure to read Dr. Aggarwal's articles on his Huffington Post Blog here.
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 Aggarwal's Doctoral Dissertation entitled:
The Medical Geography of Cannabinoid Botanicals in Washington State: Access, Delivery, and Distress (Accepted August 22, 2008)
©Copyright 2008
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.
Aggarwal et al. 2013. 45:2, 141-155
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:
Front Psychiatry. 2013;4:6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00006. Epub 2013 Feb 26.
Sunil K. Aggarwal, MD, PhD
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:
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
Published 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
Published Paper:
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
Published 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
Editorial:
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
Published 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.
Course Paper:
Embodying Forbidden Cannabinated States
Sunil Kumar Aggarwal
Geography 573
Urban Political Geography: Sexuality and Space
Professor Michael Brown
Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, MD, PhD
Included in Mr. Ellis’s Pardon Application
Dr. Aggarwal’s Manifesto for Physicians for Social Responsibility:
Structural Violence, Human Dignity, Drugs, Energy Policy In An Age of Dangerous Substances
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