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How Flimsy Can a Study Get?

By O’Shaughnessy’s News Service 8/28/12 “Heavy Pot Use Tied to IQ Drop,”...

Who is responsible for fact checking?

We were sent this piece from the Huffington Post, which reads like a press release. Is there really a 10,000 member Medical Marijuana Chamber of Commerce or does Mr. Leto just want to call attention to his statement about Obama?...

Smoke Signals in Seattle

When Martin Lee was writing Smoke Signals, his comprehensive “social history of...

Dr. Dotson’s Advice

On the occasion of his retirement, Robert S. Dotson, MD, an opthalmologist, wrote...

CBD from Hemp?

Hi . I am an Oregon Medical Marijuana Program member . I am taking Rick Simpson oil every night before bed to eliminate my prostate cancer ( early stage) . I do not have the lab report on this oil yet . I may be having it tested...

Last Call at the Vapor Room

By Fred Gardner As the sun was going down over Twin Peaks on the last day of July, two young men...

Inappropriate Lids

A housewife reviewing an advertising insert in the Sunday Oakland Tribune noticed how many of the...

How Jill Stein can Help Barack Obama

July 18 We asked Lester Grinspoon, the grand old man of the medical marijuana movement, “What’s your line on Jill Stein, MD (the Green Party candidate for President)? She sounded great in the NY Times piece and on...

“The guy with the red hair”

July 24 From Tom O’Connell, MDMedia coverage of the murderous rampage in Colorado has portrayed James Holmes as “evil.” Have these reporters never heard of the disorder called “Schizophrenia” that...

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