CMCR Director Igor Grant congratulates Donald Abrams, MD, of UCSF on his retirement, and highlights some key contributions Dr. Abrams made to medicinal cannabis research, and as a founding member of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research. Front page photo shows Dr. Abrams and Dr. Cheryl Jay presenting on their neuropathy study at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in 2004.