Ethan Russo, MD

Ethan Russo, MD, is a board-certified child and adult neurologist with Montana Neurobehavioral Specialists in Missoula, MT, and researcher in migraine, ethnobotany, medicinal plants, cannabis and cannabinoids in pain management, and the therapeutic applications of Schedule I plants and chemicals. Dr. Russo holds faculty positions as adjunct associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Montana, and clinical associate professor in the Department of Medicine of the University of Washington. He has published numerous articles in scientific journals and is the author of Handbook of Psychotropic Herbs: A Scientific Analysis of Herbal Preparations for Psychiatric Conditions. He is co-editor with Franjo Grotenhermen of the book Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Potential, and author of the novel The Last Sorcerer: Echoes of the Rainforest, all from Haworth Press. Dr. Russo is the founding editor of Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics: Studies in Endogenous, Herbal and Synthetic Cannabinoids, whose charter issue was released in January 2001. Two double-issues are also published as books, Cannabis Therapeutics in HIV/AIDS, and Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science and Sociology. He has published over two dozen articles on topics of neurology, clinical cannabis, and medicinal plants. Dr. Russo has served as a consultant for private pharmaceutical companies, medical-legal cases, and in conservation policies with regards to medicinal herbs. He lives in the Blackfoot River Canyon surrounded by nature, is married to a pediatric nurse practitioner, and has two teenage children.