Before Marijuana Became an ‘Issue’ Unto Itself
By Fred Gardner Just arrived in the mailbox is a book called Dangerous Grounds,...
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Author: Fred Gardner
‘Entourage Effect’ debated in Scientific American
On April 20 Scientific American ran a piece by Angus Chen asking, “Is Marijuana’s...
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A Warning to Epilepsy Patients
Benedict Carey is a longtime shill for the drug companies and medical device manufacturers. His...
Read MoreUCSF Joins War on Drugs
From a memo to the student editors of Synapse May 1998 UCSF launched its new “Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction” —an accounting entity described by its founders, poetically, as “a building without walls”— with a symposium...
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Good Physician Seeks to Practice Medicine
It has been almost five years since Joanne Benzor, MD, was allowed to practice medicine in...
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MBC Meets in Santa Ana April 27
The Medical Board of California holds its next quarterly meeting in Santa Ana. On the morning of...
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Prozac and Medical Marijuana
Everybody who knows the history of the medical marijuana movement knows that Dennis Peron started...
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When JAMA Discovered the Endocannabinoid System
The very first description of the endocannibinoid system in JAMA, the Journal of the American...
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God Gave Gilbert the Rainbow Sign
I saw Gilbert Baker about a month ago at Cafe Flor. A bunch of us were waiting for Dennis Peron,...
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