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My name is Sunil Aggarwal. I'm a doctor, a physician of rehabilitation medicine in a
residency at New York University Medical Center. I have a PhD in the field of medical geography
and I studied for my dissertation the use of cannabis in the state of Washington in
the medical system there. I recently was inducted into the New York Academy of Medicine as an
associate member and I have about a dozen or so peer-reviewed publications in scientific
and medical journals on issues regarding medical cannabis or cannabis related dosing, science,
safety, and even health and human rights issues. I'm a board member of the Americans for Safe
Access Foundation, which is working to bring cannabis's medical benefits to all who may
benefit from it.
One thing important about my biography that I think you should know is that I'm actually
an Okie from Muskogee. I was born and raised in a small town in the buckle of the Bible
Belt called Muskogee, Oklahoma. I guess that's important when it comes to marijuana because
there's a famous song called Okie from Muskogee by Merle Haggard from the 70s which started
with the line, we don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee. It was basically a counter, counter-culture
reaction to the Vietnam War protestors. Even an Okie from Muskogee can know something about
marijuana and hopefully we can kind of break down our barriers between which places are
okay with marijuana and which places are not because really that's part of our culture
wars.