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...Rogier Bos, speaking for the expert body that advised the minister on the issue, agrees. "If these consumers switch back to LSD, public health will suffer." The synthetic hallucinogen, which has been banned since 1966, is usually sold as a piece of impregnated paper, and thus easier to hide and trade than the bulky mushrooms...
Several of Glendon’s closest colleagues described her yesterday as an expert in multiple fields, an active member of the faculty, and a popular figure among students...
...states. Amid almost universal criticism of the federal government's 100:1 ratio, only 13 states still make a legal distinction between crack and powder cocaine, and none of these states applies as harsh a ratio as 100:1. But according to Douglas Berman, a professor and sentencing expert at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law, prosecutors have an extraordinary amount of discretion in deciding whether a case gets tried in state or federal court. "Ironically," he says, "the more lenient a state is on these issues, the more likely the local federal prosecutor will say, 'Well...
...very important in the big picture because they create all the heavy elements. They produce the iron in your blood [and] in the core of the Earth,” Kirshner said. “We personally are made out of stardust,” he added. Supernova expert Alexei V. Filippenko, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley who played a central role in discovering that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, said he was intrigued by the team’s findings. “Spectroscopically, it was certainly a very interesting supernova that deserves...
...speech was almost predictable, but I liked how he answered questions,” said Nara Lee ’11. “He positioned himself very well, and spoke with first-hand experience that intrigued me a lot more than just a speculator or an expert would,” she said...