Related topics medical marijuanaGlaucomaMedical CannabisGary StorckWisconsin Advertisement On October 3, 1972, Gary Storck smoked marijuana before heading off for a glaucoma checkup. Afflicted with glaucoma since birth from a condition called Noonan Syndrome, Storck had been going to eye appointments since he was a small child. A voracious reader, he had learned of a federally-funded 1971 UCLA study by Hepler and Frank which found cannabis reduced intraocular pressures (IOP) in normal subjects for about 4 to 5 hours with "no indications of any deleterious effects ... on visual function or ocular structure". The federal Controlled Substances Act, which declared marijuana a Schedule One drug...
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