With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
From Jenna Orkin
What to know about the plague after a suspected human case in Colorado
Earlier this year, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) proposed officially reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
The government should go further and completely remove research barriers for the substance nationwide, writes Joerg Leheste, a neuroscientist at New York Tech’s College of Osteopathic Medicine. The true potential of pot's therapeutic value remains underresearched, he says. "Large multicenter clinical studies, the gold standard for medical research examining marijuana for therapeutic purposes, are lacking as a result of high costs, regulatory hurdles, limited supply, complex approval processes, funding challenges and stigma over the past five decades."
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