Going to Pot
I would have expected CNN doc Sanjay Gupta’s very public recantation of his former (but equally public) pontifications on the evils of marijuana to have prompted a flood of pieces on pot. Surely this...
View ArticleGoing To Pot: The Marijuana Sequel
In my last post, also on marijuana, I wondered why science writers hadn’t used Sanjay Gupta’s announcement of his apostasy from the anti-Cannabis contingent as a reason for examining the marijuana...
View ArticlePeer review at PubMed Commons. Also, more on marijuana
If there is a single basic irreplaceable tool for research in the life sciences, it is surely PubMed, the literature database of the US National Library of Medicine. PubMed is irreplaceable not just...
View ArticleCoke v. WHO on sugar & obesity, gene therapy v. HIV, Obama & Obamacare v....
They’d like to teach the world to drink Coke The National Press Foundation recently sent out an invitation to a webinar for journalists next week, something it does occasionally. The ostensible topic...
View ArticleA Goldilocks exoplanet and marijuana on the brain
Everything you ever wanted to know about Kepler 186f The planet Kepler 186f is 500 light years away, might have liquid water, and orbits a red dwarf star. Red dwarfs are cooler, yes, and dimmer, but...
View ArticleLab safety, smallpox and more virulent flu, marijuana benefits, plus...
Lab safety is even worse than you thought The best single blog source for keeping up with the current smallpox-anthrax-flu-lab safety fiasco is Maryn McKenna’s Superbug, one of the Wired blogs. Some...
View ArticleLegal marijuana and cannabis research, Google X health project, Retraction...
Legalizing cannabis in order to legalize cannabis research? The New York Times has been running a series of editorials and commentaries and blog posts backing legal marijuana. Even although it’s been...
View ArticleElection: marijuana, climate change, abortion, Obamacare, soda tax, GMOs
Still going to pot The Republicans won big last Tuesday. But so did marijuana. Here’s a summary, from Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic: “Oregon and Alaska just became the third and fourth states...
View ArticleDo AA and other 12-step programs work? Does breastfeeding raise IQ?
Do 12-step programs for addiction treatment work? Are 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous effective treatments for addiction? That long-time dispute has just popped up...
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Breaking memory circuits with marijuana
Paranoia. Munchies. Giggles. Sleepiness. Memory loss. Although the effects of cannabinoids–the active components of marijuana–are familiar to many, their neurobiological substrates are poorly...
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