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Category: structural biology
A new study provides evidence that tilts in favor of one side of an ongoing scientific controversy, but it's not the slam dunk it may seem to be on the surface.
Posted on: February 21, 2010 7:08 PM, by Nick Anthis • 6 Comments •
Category: marijuana
Yesterday, the influential AMA (American Medical Association) announced that it would cease its opposition to the concept of medical marijuana and instead advocate for a change in federal classification of the drug. From the LA Times: The American Medical Assn....
Posted on: November 11, 2009 12:37 PM, by Nick Anthis • 18 Comments •
Category: structural biology
All H1N1 swine flu isolates tested to date are resistant to adamantane-based drugs. This post explains the origin of this resistance in light of what we know about the structure and function of influenza proteins.
Posted on: May 1, 2009 6:49 AM, by Nick Anthis • 37 Comments •
Category: biology
The active ingredient in marijuana causes cancer cells to begin to degrade themselves from the inside, leading to programmed cell death.
Posted on: April 2, 2009 6:12 AM, by Nick Anthis • 85 Comments •
Category: drugs
Based on a report in The Lancet, drug classification schemes need to change. Now.
Posted on: March 23, 2007 8:38 AM, by Nick Anthis • 12 Comments •
Category: law
Under the new Democratic Congress, many are hoping to change these outdated and sometimes blatantly racist laws.
Posted on: January 10, 2007 9:47 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
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?
Posted on: August 1, 2006 11:08 AM, by Nick Anthis • 16 Comments •
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.
Posted on: July 21, 2006 7:45 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
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
Posted on: July 20, 2006 7:45 AM, by Nick Anthis • 7 Comments •
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!
Posted on: July 14, 2006 7:45 AM, by Nick Anthis • 9 Comments •
