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...cursory examination of the current scientific literature reveals confusion and lack of consensus over whether marijuana has a valid medical use, even over whether it harms its users at all. Dr. Howard Shaffer, the editor of Psychology of Addictive Behaviors and Associate Professor and Director of the Division on Addictions at Harvard Medical School, wrote in an e-mail “The scientific community is fractured on the medical use issue. Some argue that medical marijuana can be very useful for dealing with the symptoms of certain diseases or the treatment side effects. Others argue that we already have...
...abroad adopted this semester by the College, students are now barred from visiting countries including Lebanon, Nigeria and Yemen as well as 23 others on Harvard’s buck. Moreover, the policies prohibit the College from granting any academic credit for study abroad experiences there? While there are valid concerns about the risks inherent in traveling to some of these locations, we regret that at a time when the College is trying to encourage international experiences, it has put insurance considerations ahead of pedagogy...
...While moral opposition to stem cell research is a valid opinion, California voters have shown that the great majority of the state’s residents support the research. Although stem cell research may not produce treatments for many years, the knowledge that we will undoubtedly learn from such a field would make the wait worthwhile. Scientific research is rarely a discipline where new developments occur quickly or easily. Stem cells are no exception, and we should expect many painstaking years of research. The ultimate results of this research, possible cures for diseases ranging from Parkinson?...
...It’s really not so much ‘Is Dylan a valid object of study,’ but you have to decide if rock and roll or American music is a valid object of study,” he says. “And once you realize that it is, or once you concede that it is, then all arrows will point to Dylan...
...dominant feeling going into most writing tends to be one of exploration and process. Writing as means, not as end! The page as dressing room, not debutante ball! The idea of that process as an end product of its own is valid but remains a fantasy. Nevertheless, I want readers to see my work the way I think about the topics: ruminative, sensitive, shrewd. Specific, but with broad implications. Pointed yet flexible; irreverent yet respectful; lucid yet informal...