The Other Fred Gardner
A new edition of Franz Kafka’s diary has just been published in English. The New Yorker...
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Author: Fred Gardner
GW Sues to Enforce its CBD-for-Epilepsy Patent
In 2021 an oddly named drug company headquartered in Ireland, Jazz, acquired GW Pharmaceuticals, a...
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Welcome Home, Brittney!
The joy on Brittney Griner’s face –pure relief expressed in a smile– came as a sweet...
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The SCC and the MBC
In mid-August Dale Gieringer, an SCC stalwart and the longtime director of California NORML,...
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Route 66 Revisited
In “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” handsomely printed in the USA and just published by Simon & Schuster, Dylan describes and comments on 66 songs and the artists who made them. You might think the title sounds pretentious,...
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A Canceled Backcourt
The first knock on Kyrie Irving’s sanity came a few years ago when he told an interviewer...
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Esther Silverstein Blanc
As recounted in the spring of 1991, this memoir ran in the Anderson Valley Advertiser in five...
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Laguna Honda’s Predictable Crisis
September 13, 2022 Today was the day on which all the patients at Laguna Honda were supposed to...
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