{"id":26943,"date":"2013-10-09T04:48:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T09:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=26943"},"modified":"2013-10-08T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T18:36:12","slug":"medical-marijuana-expert-to-give-lecture-oct-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_09_2013\/medical-marijuana-expert-to-give-lecture-oct-11","title":{"rendered":"Medical marijuana expert to give lecture Oct. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cheryl Shuman, who calls herself the \u201cMartha Stewart of marijuana,\u201d will give a free talk at The University of Toledo about medical cannabis.<\/p>\n

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Shuman<\/p><\/div>\u201cThe Truth About Medical Cannabis With Cheryl Shuman\u201d will take place Friday, Oct. 11, at 3 p.m. in Nitschke Hall Auditorium. <\/P><\/p>\n

The event will include a talk from Shuman as well as a panel of physicians and patients to discuss their experiences with medical marijuana.<\/p>\n

The event is sponsored by Northwest Ohio NORML and the UT Libertarian Party student organization. NORML, which is an acronym for National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, works to move public opinion to legalize the responsible use of marijuana by adults and advocates for consumers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough civil and political action, we can advance our state’s drug laws toward a more sensible policy,\u201d said Mary Smith, director of public relations for the local NORML chapter. \u201cOur chapter represents the interests of Ohio citizens who believe the medical and recreational use of marijuana and industrial use should no longer be a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

“The UT Libertarian Party is proud to collaborate with Northwest Ohio-NORML to bring such a high-caliber speaker to campus,\u201d said Kenneth Sharp, a first-year UT law student and president of the student organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of our graduates in the fields of medicine, pharmacy and law may encounter the need for such information as more states legalize or decriminalize marijuana, but the federal laws still make it a crime,\u201d he said. \u201cWe hope you will join us.”<\/p>\n

In 2006, Shuman\u2019s battle with cancer and subsequent use of cannabis treatments earned a lot of publicity and led to her appointment as the executive director for Beverly Hills NORML. She became a visible advocate for the medical marijuana reform movement and helped launch Kush Magazine in 2010, a monthly cannabis lifestyle magazine.<\/p>\n

Shuman lectures internationally about medical marijuana and has appeared on national news programs, including \u201c20\/20,\u201d \u201cPiers Morgan Live\u201d on CNN and \u201cGood Morning America.\u201d <\/p>\n

Shuman is visiting the Buckeye State with talks in Toledo and other cities in support of the Ohio Rights Group, which is petitioning for the Ohio Cannabis Rights Amendment. <\/p>\n

For more information about Shuman, visit cherylshuman.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cheryl Shuman, who became an advocate for medical marijuana after battling cancer, will speak Friday, Oct. 11, in Nitschke Hall Auditorium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}