Category: Second Column
NAS, NAM Leaders Decry ‘Politicization of Science’
9/25/20 The presidents of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine,...
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‘Ignore the CDC’ says former NIH Director
“It Has Come to This: Ignore the C.D.C.” So read the headline on the 8/31/20 op-ed in...
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Boom Times for Health Insurers
August 29, 2020 With many fewer people going to doctors for check-ups, screenings, and elective...
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Most NIDA-Funded MJ Studies Seek to Show Harm
Back in 1994 NIDA director Alan Leshner told Dr. Donald Abrams with a smirk that his proposal to...
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Dr. Fauci’s Cannabis-Related Paper
Dr. John McPartland is writing a literature review on fungal infections from smoking contaminated...
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Radio Waves May Speed Seedling Growth
August 16, 2020 “A dose of radio waves seems to encourage plant seedlings to grow slightly...
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FDA Drafts Guidelines on Cannabis-related Research
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued “Cannabis and Cannabis-Derived Compounds:...
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Safe Passage, Lester
June 26 Lester Grinspoon died yesterday at age 92 with Betsy, his wife of 66 years, by his side....
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‘The Last Negroes at Harvard’
The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 young men who changed Harvard forever By...
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Ethan Russo Starts a Company
4/2/20 “Ethan Russo Launches Endocannabinoid Startup” reports Benzinga, a business...
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Patients’ Rights Jeopardized in El Dorado County
Since 2004, Bobby Eisenberg, with his wife Daisy, has been managing a small clinic in Cool,...
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CA demands MJ products warn pregnant women against using
March 10, 2020 An article in the National Law Review describes the new labels that must be...
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