Gordon was born and raised in Winston-Salem. His parents were courageous God fearing people who fed our souls and bodies with love and music and truth.
After finishing high school, he went to the US Naval Academy at Annapolis where I graduated in 1969. He served as a Naval Officer in Florida, the North Atlantic and in California.
Gordon then graduated from Wake Forest Medical School in 1977 and then completed a Family Practice Residency at the University of Western Ontario in 1979.
Gordon was practicing in a clinic on Hatteras Island in 1980, when a patient enquired about using marijuana for the nausea of her chemotherapy. Having had some experience with cannabis throughout medical school, I knew it to be relatively harmless and safe to try and so related this to her. She said she didn’t know where to get some. I thus decided to grow some for her, as her physician.
Gordon was arrested for felonious gardening in August of 1980. The charges were going to be dropped because of no search warrant but he pushed for a trial to get some of the suppressed truth regarding the plant out.
So began his 35 year journey with Cannabis…
Enjoy this one hour episode of Living Well with Gordon who shares about the sacred nature of cannabis and the many health benefits of the plant.
Living Well with Gordon Piland on AshevilleFM, January 4, 2016
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