Do You Feel Safer Yet?
Customs officials seize $2.6 million in bongs and pipes at Los Angeles Harbor. Yes, this is really how they’re spending our tax dollars.
View ArticleSacked UK Science Advisor Sounds Off Again
David Nutt, removed as chair of the British government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs for daring to speak the unwanted truth that marijuana is safer than alcohol, is speaking out again, this...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana and Young Patients
Lately there has been a small burst of media fascination with what by most accounts is a rare occurrence: Use of medical marijuana recommended by a physician by patients under 18. Any psychoactive...
View ArticleMarijuana and Young ADHD Patients — the Dialogue Continues.
My recent post about medical marijuana and young patients got picked up by the folks over at OpposingViews.com. And that prompted writer Katherine Ellison, whose New York Times story I’d taken issue...
View ArticleMarijuana Component May Help Treat Heroin Addiction
The Journal of Neuroscience just published a new study that is particularly interesting in light of recent reports that marijuana may effectively substitute for abuse of more dangerous drugs. In the...
View ArticleIs Medical Marijuana a Performance-Enhancing Drug?
Not by any rational standard, but the folks who run the Iditarod, Alaska’s famous sled-dog race, seem to think so. Yikes.
View ArticleMPP’s Aaron Houston on CNN’s “Situation Room” Today
MPP’s Aaron Houston will be interviewed on CNN’s “The Situation Room” today regarding progress toward lifting the “Barr amendment,” which has blocked Washington D.C. from implementing its medical...
View ArticlePain.com Invites MPP to Weigh In On Medical Marijuana
Check out this point/counterpoint on medical marijuana on the new medical Web site, Pain.com. They tell us that as of this morning it was the most popular item on the site.
View ArticleMore High School Seniors Smoke Marijuana Than Cigarettes
The federal government just released the latest ‘Monitoring the Future’ survey of teen drug use, and the results do not bode well for current policies. More high school seniors report smoking marijuana...
View ArticleNonsense About Medical Marijuana and Teens
A new survey showing, among other things, a slight uptick in teen marijuana use, got considerable press yesterday and today. A widely-circulated Associated Press story, along with many other reports,...
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