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...five tobacco cigarettes in terms of the amount of carbon monoxide intake and ten tobacco cigarettes with respect to the amount of damage to the airways. It is no wonder that half of teens and adolescents in substance abuse treatment are there for marijuana only. The current scientific consensus is that marijuana is not a benign drug. Solid social and scientific research provides the basis for maintaining our current laws—even if they are as soft as parking tickets—so as to not make marijuana commercially available...
Even more important, the ethical implications of such a procedure have hardly been explored. Issues of commodification and individuality, issues that touch every person in the most fundamental way, have yet to be engaged by the public to any considerable extent. There is no social consensus on human reproductive cloning and the debate has not even begun. It would be morally irresponsible of any scientist to create a human clone before politicians, philosophers, and religious leaders have a chance to digest and discuss these issues...
...Sharon is not particularly comfortable with the prospect of renewed political talks, and certainly not with Arafat - despite the fact that moderate Arab and Palestinian leaders across the board have repeatedly stressed that there is no other address for negotiations. Sharon's coalition government is founded on a security consensus, but is deeply divided over the political horizon. His Labor Party coalition partners favor rapid movement towards a final settlement based on the same land-for-peace principles articulated in the Arab League's recent peace offer; Sharon opposes that vision and talks of "interim" agreements with unnamed moderate leaders...
...This is a different way of doing science,” Spengler said. “This consensus project brings a new way of thinking that most academics don’t think about...
...statehood. He has made clear that he hopes his Friday meeting with Sharon will give him a better sense of the Israeli leader's political vision. But Sharon's government of national unity is based on crisis-management rather a shared political vision, and while it maintains a relative consensus on security matters, it is sharply divided over the political future of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza...