Their name was taken from Dr. Lester Grinspoon an Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who supports marijuana for medical use.

Their name was taken from Dr. Lester Grinspoon, an Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who supports marijuana for medical use.

" Their debut was the six-track EP, Grinspoon ( aka Green Album ), which was released in 1995 through the independent Oracle Records.

Grinspoon recorded The Easybeats ' track " St. Louis " for a tribute album, Easy Fever: A Tribute to The Easybeats and Stevie Wright — released in October 2008 — while Jamieson's duet with The Wrights on " Evie part 3: I'm Losing You " from 2005 was included.

On 6 November, Grinspoon played live on Triple J radio and confirmed that " Summer " was the second single from the album.

This is more than any other artist as a whole and individually for 2006 and 2005 ( 2005 was actually a tie with Grinspoon on two awards ).

The album was produced by Daniel Denholm ( Frente !, Boom Crash Opera ), Phil McKellar ( Grinspoon, Frenzal Rhomb ), the band and McKercher.

All effort was made to reinstate the appropriate and acceptable standard of stage production levels to the Main Stage area without success, prompting festival organisers arranging to re-locate the four remaining main stage headline acts for the night from the Main Stage to the Pharaoh ’ s Annex tent ( Empire Of The Sun ; Grinspoon ; The Butterfly Effect ; & Van She ).

Grinspoon was senior psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston for 40 years.

Dr. Lester Grinspoon was born June 24, 1928 in Newton, Massachusetts.

As a doctor, Grinspoon was the first American physician to prescribe lithium carbonate for bipolar disorder.

" When Grinspoon began studying marijuana in 1967, his intention was to " define scientifically the nature and degree of those dangers " but as he reviewed the existing literature on the subject Grinspoon reached the conclusion he and the general public had been misinformed and misled.

Grinspoon was a prominent speaker at the 1998 NORML conference in Washington, DC.

Grinspoon discussed the way marijuana helped his young son while he was dying from leukemia in the 1970s, completely eliminating the horrible nausea and vomiting he experienced after each of his chemotherapy treatments and, thereby, making the final year and a half of the boy's life far more comfortable, for his son, and for Grinspoon and his wife by not having to endure the pain of witnessing their son suffer.

Kisschasy's debut album United Paper People was recorded and produced by Phillip McKellar ( Silverchair, Grinspoon ) in Sydney during February 2005.

He attempted to get the Board to dissolve itself, so that it could be replaced by a new Board, reconstituted by marijuana research pioneer, author, Harvard Medical School's Lester Grinspoon, MD.

Dr. Lester Grinspoon is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Lineup: Empire of the Sun, Van She, Grinspoon, Regurgitator, The Butterfly Effect, Cat Power, The Cat Empire, Ugly Duckling, Architecture in Helsinki, Faker, The Beautiful Girls, AMP Fiddler, Blue King Brown, Krafty Kuts, British India, The Drones, Tame Impala, Baddies, The Boxer Rebellion, Bluejuice, Grafton Primary, Clare Bowditch, Something With Numbers, Funkoars, Bumblebeez, Kram, Dead Letter Circus, Ponytail, Telepathe, The Juan Maclean, Phrase, The Fumes, Astronomy Class, Dallas Frasca, Sugar Army, Skipping Girl Vinegar, We Have Band, Cassette Kids, Red Riders, Sinden, Tom Ugly, Shockone, Diafrix, Jack Beats, Canyons, The Swiss, Bang Bang Eche, Bonjah, MM9, Regular John, Calling All Cars, Red Ink, Melodics, The Smoke, Chestwig, DJ Cecille, In Sol Inside

The annual festival has also been a launching platform for many Australian artists, with various acts performing on the tour multiple times, such as Silverchair, Powderfinger, You Am I, The Living End, Jebediah, Grinspoon, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kisschasy, and Wolfmother.

Notable supporters of the club include ; Don Burke, Doug Walters, Harry Kewell, James Magnussen, Elka Graham, Bill Woods, Tony Roche Ian Thorpe, Joe Hansen ( guitarist for Grinspoon ), John Hatzistergos, Ma ' a Nonu, Mark Waugh, Steve Waugh, and Peter Lonard.

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Whilst in US touring for ten months as support act for Creed, Lit, Godsmack and Anthrax, Grinspoon released a six track EP, Pushing Buttons, for their Australian market in September 1998.

Grinspoon headlined the Newton's Playground festival, held atop Bathurst's famous Mount Panorama in March, with their song " Lost Control " played in advertisements for the festival.

In 1998 the Australian rock band Grinspoon filmed a video for their song " Just Ace " on the station's platforms.

Kemstar played guitar with the Australian supergroup The Jack ( with members of You Am I, Grinspoon, The Living End, Spiderbait, and Sender ) for the Thunderstruck soundtrack, performing on the songs " Crash & Burn " and " It's a Long Way to the Top ( If You Wanna Rock ' n ' Roll )".

* 2002-Powderfinger, Oasis, Mercury Rev, Grinspoon, Something for Kate, … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Motor Ace, Superheist, The Butterfly Effect, Giants of Science, Morrissey, John Butler Trio, George, Dirty Three, Mogwai, Machine Gun Fellatio, Dan Brodies and the Broken Arrows, The D4, Seafood, Speedstar, Shutterspeed, Halfday, Unwritten Law, Sum 41, Bodyjar, The International Noise Conspiracy, Strung Out, Dropkick Murphys, One Dollar Short, Seraphs Coal, Stalkers, The Disables, Mouthguard, The Streets, Gerling, Tex Perkins and the Dark Horses, Waikiki, Wil Anderson, The Lucksmiths, Butterfingers

Musical guests who have appeared on Sunrise include Fergie, Paulini, the Young Divas, Pink, Sam Sparro, The Veronicas, The Wiggles, Hinder, Take That, Keith Urban, Joss Stone, Eskimo Joe, Sneaky Sound System, Thirsty Merc, Missy Higgins, Josh Groban, Girls Aloud, Human Nature, Grinspoon, Avril Lavigne, Patrizio Buanne, Small Mercies, Zac Efron, Tamara Dowhaluk, Mark Dawson, Wilhediva Slater, The Androids, Michael Bublé, Maroon 5, Crowded house, Silverchair, Paul Kelly, Colbie Caillat, Gym Class Heroes, Editors, Jose Gonzalez, Josh Pyke, Daddy Cool, Something for Kate, The Whitlams with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, The Cat Empire, Rogue Traders, Kelly Clarkson, The Last Goodnight, Ben Lee, Anthony Callea, Delta Goodrem, David Campbell, Kate Miller-Heidke, Tina Arena, Hi-5, Mika, Operator Please, Newton Faulkner, Kelly Rowland, Guy Sebastian, Simple Plan, Ian Moss, The Pussycat Dolls, Ozzy Osbourne, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Usher Raymond, Alexandra Burke, Amy Meredith, Ne-Yo, The Choirboys, Florence + the Machine, Michael Paynter, Katy Perry, Little Red, Cody Simpson, Ricki-Lee Coulter, Sophie-Ellis Bextor, Susan Boyle and Reece Mastin, Direction among many others.

Dr. Grinspoon is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Psychiatric Association.

In 1990 Dr. Grinspoon won the Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for Achievement in the Field of Scholarship from the Drug Policy Foundation.

Dr. Grinspoon runs 2 websites: 1 ) Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine that includes thousands of individual anecdotes concerning the medical uses of marijuana as well as Q & A ; and 2 ) Uses of Marijuana that allows for people to submit essays relating to the ' enhancing ' effects that marijuana can have on the user.

Bands such as Jet, Wolfmother, Eskimo Joe, Grinspoon, The Vines, The Living End, Pendulum and Delta Goodrem have enjoyed success worldwide.

Since the mid 1990s a string of successful alternative Australian acts have emerged ; artists to achieve both underground ( critical ) and mainstream ( commercial ) success include You Am I, Grinspoon, Powderfinger and Jet.

Grinspoon changed their sound to more mainstream rock by their 2002 album, New Detention, gaining fans and peaking at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Charts ; similarly 2007's Alibis & Other Lies also reached No. 2.

After the intense US touring, Grinspoon released their second album, Easy in September 1999, which peaked at No. 4 and went platinum in Australia.

After a break to reconsider their direction and sound Grinspoon started recording their next album, New Detention, in Sydney's Festival Studios in September 2001 but prior to finishing the studios were shut down and so vocals and guitars were recorded in smaller studios.

Grinspoon also performed at the 2004 NRL grand final before a second single, " Better Off Alone ", issued in November, also reached the Top 30.

Grinspoon had built a strong local following after their rise, they were regulars at Australian music festivals.

On 26 March 2006, Grinspoon performed " Hard Act To Follow " and " Better Off Alone " at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony in Melbourne.

Grinspoon released a 2-disc compilation entitled Best in Show.

In the US, all Grinspoon albums had been released on iTunes and other online music stores.

On 5 February 2008, Jamieson announced, via the band's official website, that Grinspoon were on hiatus following their appearance at Big Day Out in late January.

On 1 May, Grinspoon announced they would complete more shows before writing a new album.