Manley Elisha West OM (17 March 1929 – 24 April 2012) was a Jamaican pharmacologist who studied the marijuana plant.
[1] He was the first Jamaican to be appointed as professor in the University of the West Indies Department of Pharmacology in 1981.
[2] In 1985 he joined the University of Cambridge as a British Council Fellow, working with Alan Cuthbert on how drugs cross the membrane of the eye.
[6] He attended a conference in the United States, where he heard that marijuana can lower intraocular pressure.
[6] He pioneered the use of marijuana as a treatment for Glaucoma, and was co-inventor of canasol with Albert Lockhart.