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scientificactivistprofile.gif A postdoc by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his research in protein structure and function get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.

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drug war:

Study Finds Alcohol and Tobacco More Harmful than Marijuana, LSD, or Ecstasy (Revisited)

Category: drugs

Based on a report in The Lancet, drug classification schemes need to change. Now.

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Potential Changes to Mandatory Sentencing Laws

Category: law

Under the new Democratic Congress, many are hoping to change these outdated and sometimes blatantly racist laws.

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Study Finds Alcohol and Tobacco More Harmful than Marijuana, LSD, or Ecstasy--Drug Reclassification Should Follow

Category: drugs

A recent UK government study indicates that the class of a drug has little to do with its actual danger. Another report blasts the government for allowing politics to usurp science in formulating drug policy. Is the UK's drug policy fundamentally flawed, or does it just need a bit of scientific tweaking?

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Fantastical Fridays: Are You Cool, Man?

Category: Fantastical Fridays

If you know what I'm talking about, and if you are in fact "cool", then you might also be interested in these recent research findings about the surprising lack of negative health affects associated with marijuana.

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Supreme Court Leaves Medical Marijuana Out in the Cold

Category: marijuana

Which of the following does not belong: (a) abortion, (b) medical marijuana, or (c) physician-assisted suicide? According the Supreme Court, the answer is (b) medical marijuana

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Fantastical Fridays: Psychedelic Psilocybin Psychology

Category: Fantastical Fridays

Now here's an experiment I would have liked to take part in. Researchers from Johns Hopkins systematically test the psychological effects of the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, and the results are pretty positive. Not only that, but a significant number of participants rate the experience as the single most meaningful one of their lives!

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