1. Peter Grinspoon was born on 1966 and is an American physician.
19 Facts About Peter Grinspoon
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Peter Grinspoon is an internist and medical cannabis specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.
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Peter Grinspoon is an expert on the topic of medical and recreational cannabis, and has a strong interest in the areas of physician health, addiction and recovery, and in psychedelic treatments.
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Peter Grinspoon is a certified physician coach for the MGH Center for Physician Well Being as well as a Health and Wellness Coach.
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Peter Grinspoon has appeared on national television programs including The Daily Show, Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, Fox and Friends, Fox Nation, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC and C-SPAN2 to discuss drug policy, cannabis legalization as well as his addiction and recovery.
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Peter Grinspoon served as an Associate Director for Massachusetts Physician Health Service, part of the Massachusetts Medical Society from 2013 to 2015, helping and advocating for other physicians who struggle with addiction.
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Peter Grinspoon is a board member of the advocacy group Doctors For Cannabis Regulation and speaks internationally on various cannabis-related issues.
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Peter Grinspoon is frequently cited in the popular press, and has been noted in USA Today, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, NY Magazine, The Daily Beast, and The Boston Globe.
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Peter Grinspoon has appeared on numerous podcasts and radio programs.
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Peter Grinspoon was featured on NPR's All Things Considered in a piece about the harmfulness of withholding medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorders from physicians.
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Peter Grinspoon is the nephew of billionaire philanthropist Harold Grinspoon.
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Peter Grinspoon grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a twin brother Joshua, his older brother David, and another older brother Danny, who died at the age of 16 from leukemia.
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Peter Grinspoon graduated from Swarthmore College with Honors in Philosophy and then went to work for Greenpeace for five years before enrolling in medical school.
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Peter Grinspoon was instrumental in one of Greenpeace's most high-profile protests, the successful stoppage of a Trident 2 nuclear missile test.
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In 1993, Peter Grinspoon entered Boston University School of Medicine, graduating with Honors.
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Peter Grinspoon was a consultant to the 2018 production of Jagged Little Pill at the American Repertory Theater.
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Peter Grinspoon was a contributor to Harvard's online course OpioidX: The Opioid Crisis in America.
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Peter Grinspoon was one of the featured members of the Boston Resilient Exhibit, which honored Boston-area leaders in the fight against addiction.
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Peter Grinspoon served as an expert witness at the lawsuit successfully challenging the ban against vaping cannabis in Massachusetts in 2019.