(NBC Miami) When you think of the world’s most prolific pot smokers, certain names come to mind: Snoop, Cheech and Chong, Willie Nelson.
How about Irvin Rosenfeld?
The 56-year-old Fort Lauderdale stockbroker will put his name among the greats when he sets a world record tomorrow for weed consumption while lighting up his 115,000th joint.
One of the few people I know can smoke me under a table - Irv Rosenfeld at NORML CON 2006
The best part is that it’s all legal.
Rosenfeld’s pot has been provided by the government since 1982, when he became a patient in the Federal Drug Administration’s Investigational New Drug Program. Grown on a farm on the campus of the University of Mississippi, the weed is delivered to a local pharmacy where Rosenfeld gets it by the bushel.
Rosenfeld suffers from a rare bone disorder called multiple congenital cartilaginous exostoses, which causes severe pain, alleviated by a healthy dose of ganja.
He’s been getting 300 joints every 25 days for the past 27 years, and said he smokes between 10 and 12 per day.
The sad thing for Irv is that the ganja the feds grow for him is the schwaggiest of the schwag. This is the marijuana grown by Dr. ElSohly in Mississippi and it’s about 4%-5% THC. They don’t bother to manicure the bud much before grinding, so the joints contain stems and leaves and the occasional seed. So don’t be too surprised when he tells you that smoking it doesn’t get him high.
I’ve also had the pleasure of knowing another of the four remaining IND patients, Elvy Musikka. She has the benefit of being both a federal medical marijuana patient and an Oregon state medical marijuana patient. She can tell you better than anyone the difference between federal schwag and Oregon’s finest, and the race isn’t even close.
What’s really disturbing is that the government set up this “Investigational New Drug Program” in 1978 and to this date they haven’t done a bit of investigation. Irv, Elvy and the other two patients have never been surveyed or studied by our government to determine how these decades of medical marijuana use have affected the humans using it. It might make you think our government never really wanted people to know how effective medical cannabis can be, huh?
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Thank you for the update!
The article is wrong. It says the gvt hasn’t done any investigating. That would be bad. Unfortunately, it is worse than that:
[Irv] is also in good health. At least, that’s what a 2001 study of medical marijuana patients in the IND program found. Four of the seven official patients participated in the “Chronic Cannabis Use in the Compassionate Investigational New Drug Program Study” conducted by Dr. Ethan Russo in Missoula, Montana, that year. That study showed “very few adverse effects in the patients,” said Russo in an interview last year. None showed signs of brain damage, immune system problems or hormone problems, Russo said. “The truth is cannabis is very effective for a wide variety of medical conditions including pain, spasms, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma,” said Russo, who has been practicing for 20 years. “Irv’s functioning has gotten better over time, not worse, as what you might expect in someone with his condition.”
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I never had a doubt that he didn’t get high anymore. I haven’t smoked nearly as much bud as him and I don’t even get stoned much anymore, no matter how good the bud is. Russ i would have to imagine that your tolerance is pretty high as well.
I started hearing how bad the gubmint weed was about fifteen or so years ago.
Back in “the day” that stuff was considered primo(yeah I said primo, and the sad part is I’m even older than THAT word)