The Great Mechoulam
The Israeli chemist Raphael Mechoulam, who died last week at 92, should have gotten the Nobel Prize for his role in figuring out how marijuana exerts its effects within the body. (“Elucidating the endocannabinoid...
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The Cannabis Times
Ukraine is still leading in column inches per day, but Cannabis is coming up on the rail in the New York Times coverage derby. Some recent stories: • “Weed on the High-End Menu” by Robert Simonson was given a full...
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The Other Fred Gardner
A new edition of Franz Kafka’s diary has just been published in English. The New Yorker...
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GW Sues to Enforce its CBD-for-Epilepsy Patent
In 2021 an oddly named drug company headquartered in Ireland, Jazz, acquired GW Pharmaceuticals, a...
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Welcome Home, Brittney!
The joy on Brittney Griner’s face –pure relief expressed in a smile– came as a sweet...
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The SCC and the MBC
In mid-August Dale Gieringer, an SCC stalwart and the longtime director of California NORML,...
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Route 66 Revisited
In “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” handsomely printed in the USA and just published by Simon & Schuster, Dylan describes and comments on 66 songs and the artists who made them. You might think the title sounds pretentious,...
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A Canceled Backcourt
The first knock on Kyrie Irving’s sanity came a few years ago when he told an interviewer...
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