FIVE SCIENTISTS WHO ENJOYED CANNABIS
Sep 07, 2021
2 minutes
by Benjamin M. Adams
1 WILLIAM BROOKE O’SHAUGNESSY
ir William Brooke O’Shaughnessy was an Edinburgh-based Fellow of the Royal Society, who as a young doctor in London studied cholera victims—developing intravenous (IV) replacement therapy. His career in Calcutta, India in the 1830s blossomed in chemistry and pharmacology, where to England in 1841, which he believed had various medical properties that were yet to be tapped, using it on tetanus patients. The Society of Cannabis Clinicians published a journal on medical cannabis research called .
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