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...scientists haven't definitively shown that the drug can safely treat nausea or pain or anything, really. Some experts claim the U.S. government has sabotaged medical-marijuana research, and there is evidence to support them. Even so, in the past few years scientists have made rapid advances in their basic understanding of how Cannabis sativa works. By 1993, researchers had found the body's two known receptors for cannabinoids, the psychoactive chemicals in the plant (THC is the main one, but there are at least 65 others). Since then, there has been important new work in several fields that users...
...many scientists--especially in the government--still squirm at the very idea of medical-marijuana research. Despite encouraging anecdotal reports, the National Institutes of Health hasn't initiated a study of cannabis therapeutics in two decades, leaving California's young center as the only U.S. research institution doing the basic science. Marijuana remains the only drug that researchers must acquire directly from the feds. If the FDA and DEA approve, scientists can get even ecstasy from outside labs, but NIDA is the sole source for cannabis, requiring a third bureaucratic layer. "In an era of privatization, it's shocking that...
...case has been shown publicly to be a sham, and the only charge I am facing is a basic traffic offense,” he wrote in an e-mail to friends and supporters after Tuesday’s hearing. “The moral victory is ours...
...scholarly community must never forget that they serve at the behest of a non-academic public,” Kaufman says. “The more academics speak to public concern, whether through their scholarly work or merely as sometime pundits, the more the public will endorse the basic goals of the academy...
...many other issues, O’Brien takes visionary, progressive stances that contrast starkly with Romney. She supports civil unions and opposes “Defense of Marriage” legislation, which denies gays and lesbians basic civil rights. This civil union proposal would offer gay and straight couples the same legal rights. Romney claims to support gay rights, but he takes the Republican Party stand that marriage is sacred and reserved only for heterosexual couples. Though O’Brien should have been courageous enough to endorse gay marriage without any reservations, civil unions are unquestionably a step...