What’s an Ethical Doctor to Do?
I hope the jurors now deliberating the fate of Dr. William Hurwitz take a look at one of the exhibits in the case, a rumination he posted in a chat room in December of 2001. He was wrestling with the...
View ArticleMarijuana Researchers Make Progress in the Lab, But Not in Washington
There’s more encouraging scientific news on the use of marijuana to alleviate pain: a study has shown that effective doses of cannabis can be delivered with vaporizers, which enable patients to get the...
View ArticleThe Bad Science Prize
Karen Tandy, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, with her not-so-telltale bag of 1,600 pills. (Photo: D.E.A.) In all fairness, I must report that the low point for science in the trial of...
View ArticleDispatches from the War on the Drugs
I recommend a couple of articles chronicling the unintended consequences of the war on drugs. One, by Ethan Nadelmann, is a global look at the damage done by prohibitionist policies. The other, by...
View ArticleBuckley v. the D.E.A.
In the slide show I narrated about the late William F. Buckley, Jr., I didn’t have room to get into a couple of issues we’ve been debating here at the Lab: the Drug Enforcement Administration’s...
View ArticleObama to Stop Raids on Marijuana Clinics
During the current Bush administration as well as in the Clinton administration, federal officials opposed the efforts of doctors and clinics to prescribe marijuana for medical purposes in states where...
View ArticleR.N.C. Attacks Obama on Medical Marijuana
It may be too much to hope for, but perhaps there’ll be a public debate this campaign over the scientific research into the efficacy of medical marijuana. There’s already a debate in progress over...
View ArticleDrug Science, 1937-2009
When Portugal decriminalized drug use in 2001, there were dire predictions of a surge in addiction and a plague of social problems. But eight years later, consider some of the numbers.
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