My Medicine
Irvin Rosenfeld
Open Archive Press
With a subtitle proclaiming, “How I convinced the U.S. Government to Provide My Marijuana and Helped Launch a National Movement,” it’s clear that author and old-school MMJ patient Irvin Rosenfeld made it his holy mission to do the impossible: get the feds to kick down the very meds they condemned. And succeed he did, as does this book in chronicling the author’s very dire circumstances that struck him when he was still playing Little League. Diagnosed with a rare bone disease that essentially causes tumors to sprout across most of his body, Rosenfeld goes on to tackle his problem bravely, both as boy, a college-age youth (where he soon discovers that all that marijuana his classmates are inhaling has a very profound effect on his pain and illness) and a man who ends up confronting a cabal of federal heavies and pleading his case—a cry many of us are familiar with: marijuana is effective medicine. Rosenfeld’s life—and this book—shines with triumph. (Matt Tapia)
