Colin Blakemore, PhD, ScD Biography
- Title:
- Chair of the Department of Physiology at the University of Oxford
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Marijuana Be a Medical Option?"
- Reasoning:
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“The second general basis for my belief that cannabis should be legalised concerns its medical application. But I don’t want to make the major play of this. I accept the argument would be wrong to make a broader case for the legalisation of cannabis on the back of possible therapeutic value to some individuals. It’s been used medically since the middle of the nineteenth century. The recent excellent review by the BMA concluded that cannabinoids have therapeutic potential in a number of medical conditions in which present drugs or other treatments are not fully adequate.”
Dec. 11, 1997
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Chair, Department of Physiology, University of Oxford
- Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford
- Director, Oxford Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience
- President, British Physiological Society
- Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Visitng Professor, Salk Institute
- Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Institute of Biology
- Member, Academia Europaea
- Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- President, British Neuroscience Association, 1997-2000
- President, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997-1998
- Education:
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- PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1968
- Medical Sciences, University of Cambridge, degree unknown
- Other:
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- None found
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