marijuana

As I've written many times:

Steve, the Mad Chemist, and I go back a long way. We were postdocs together (about 200 years ago) and later worked for the same pharmaceutical company for a decade.

It's difficult to predict what sort of nonsense is going to come out of San Francisco.

There is a green gold rush underway. Not the Green New Deal, but the growth of medicalized, then decriminalized and finally recreational marijuana.

Reprinted with permission.

With recreational marijuana spreading from state to state, it has been instructive to watch an industry emerge witnessing in real time economic principles and strategies being deployed.

Not only did Americans vote on members of Congress this week, but citizens of several states also voted on various science- and health-related policy issues. How did those turn out?

Dogs get poisoned, not “just stoned” from marijuana exposure.

We always knew when our PhD advisor was applying for a grant. He would pace the hallways, then go outside and smoke. A lot. (Thankfully, he's quit since then.)

Since its founding in 1978, the American Council on Science and Health has been vehemently anti-smoking. Cigarettes kill people, if not from cancer, then from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).