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...BRIEF history of world-wide use of cannabis and the methods used for harvesting is included, and Grinspoon makes a point of refuting the "Assassins" myth which attributes the origin of the name "hashish" to a band of eleventh century Persian warriors who (so the story goes) got high before battle. Grinspoon also sharply criticizes the AMA and in particular the anti-grass bias of the AMA journal...
...been "just inside" the gates Monday when the veterans arrived, but did not admit them because "they were a continuation of a demonstration in town." Pressed by newsmen, he said, "I stand corrected." Many observers here have indicated that yesterday's action was political, perhaps of White House origin...
...defects that account for perhaps 50% of all human ailments, lessening the ravages of old age, expanding the prowess of his mind and body. Says Caltech's Robert Sinsheimer, one of the architects of the biological revolution: "For the first time in all time, a living creature understands its origin and can undertake to design its future...
...unraveling of the DNA double helix was one of the great events in science, comparable to the splitting of the atom or the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. It also marked the maturation of a bold new science: molecular biology. Under this probing discipline, man could at last explore?and understand?living things at their most fundamental level: that of their atoms and molecules. Once molecular biology was sardonically defined as "the practice of biochemistry without a license." Now it has become one of science's most active, exciting and productive arenas, taking the limelight (and some...
...switched, over the last generation, to a more educated corps of reporters, if only to keep up with the credentials and footwork of the holders of public office." It is, he adds, "one of the more enduring attractions of our business that any bright lad of proletarian or other origin can rid himself of the social and hierarchical pressures of our society to participate, as a journalist, in the political process of our country." (Frankel himself is a German-born naturalized citizen who was graduated from Columbia...