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...ambiguity of Switzerland's cannabis economy. Technically, growing or selling the plant is legal unless it's to be used as a hallucinogen. Proving that seized marijuana was intended for that purpose is a job for the police and the courts. "If you said you were selling it to treat epilepsy, the police would have to follow buyers home to see what they did with it," says Thomas Zeltner, head of the Federal Office of Public Health...
...stressed the need for traditional medical doctors to be willing to talk with patients about the herbal or botanical substances they are taking. He cited, for example, evidence that the popular herbal supplement St. John's Wort seriously impaired the ability of Indinavir, an anti-viral drug used to treat AIDS, to function in the blood stream...
...Some physicians may refuse to treat patients if they discover the patient is using herbal medications in addition to traditional drugs. Patients may therefore hesitate to tell their doctors about such outside treatment...
...fate of their enterprise should be doubtful, unless, perchance, the standard they have set themselves will raise expectations which it will be next to impossible to meet. It is to be regretted that they have taken it so much for granted that the papers already established will treat the new-comer harshly. We, certainly, are not so bowed down by years that we can consistently look upon every innovation in the literature of the College as a permanent evil. The field the Lampoon has chosen by no means encroaches on our ground--even if it did, we should be rather...
Each Palestinian who approaches this checkpoint has no idea how the police and solders will treat him, but he does know that he has little recourse if he is mistreated. I know a Palestinian who was harassed at a checkpoint until he lost his temper; for his verbal barrage, he received a series of vague fines that destroyed the better part of his income for the week. I have met Palestinians who traveled for hours and took huge risks to circumvent the Israeli closure of the West Bank so they might earn enough money to provide their children with food...