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There were years when an issue of O’Shaughnessy’s could throw a lasso around the medical...

Cannabis Counters Parasitic Worms

The American Journal of Human Biology has published a paper by Washington State University anthropologist Ed Hagen and colleagues suggesting that male Aka foragers in the Congo (pygmies, a peaceful and once thriving people whose...

AMA wants immunity for MJ recommenders

Jun 09, 2015 by Gale Scott forwarded by Brett StoneBalking at the concept of calling any use of marijuana “medical” delegates to the American Medical Association’s annual meeting in Chicago, IL, today nevertheless agreed that...

Scientific Journals are Increasingly p.r.-oriented

June 1 A front-page story in today’s NYT by Noam Scheiber contains an astonishing bit about...

Thelma White (She Was Hip All Along)

The actress who played the pot-dealing seductress in Reefer Madness, Thelma White, recognized the...

Prozac and the Marketing of Depression

by Alexander Cockburn and Fred Gardner In January 1995 Eli Lilly, the Indianapolis-based drug...

The Shortage of Black Doctors

African Americans account for 13% of the population and five percent of US physicians. The...

All About EVOO

By O’Shaughnessy’s News ServicePeople in Greece, Southern Italy, and Spain have lower...

‘Lucky, Jr’ Makes the Cover of Time!

The May 25 Time Magazine cover photo is of a white rodent smoking a joint —an offspring of Lucky,...

Author: Fred Gardner