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...Federal Government, which by then controlled the only legal supply of marijuana, had just passed the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. That law placed marijuana in Schedule I, the designation for drugs without valid medical use. State health officials found it difficult to persuade their federal counterparts to give them cannabis for research, as doing so would undermine the law, at least in spirit, by suggesting there were medical uses. (Only seven states got pot. One was Tennessee, which is why Al Gore's sister was able to try the drug before losing her battle with lung cancer...
...Many of the criticisms, I thought, were valid,” Neugeboren said...
...probably 8.5 percent if you count the undervotes [ballots with no candidate selected], because I count the undervotes as a perfectly valid choice,” Carlberg said...
This mystical view of the value of a species, which Wilson calls “biophilia,” may be valid. But people also like big houses, televisions and SUVs. The profit that comes from the clear-cutting a tropical rainforest usually trumps any biophilia felt by the citizens of developing nations. Wilson refers to the human “occupation” of the earth in much the same tones as one would refer to the Chinese occupation of Tibet. But the occupation is here to stay, and the question is how we treat those plants and animals...
...were detained, and a 20-mile stretch of Florida highway was closed as their cars were searched. After 17 hours police released the men, who turned out to be medical students traveling to a course in Miami. Two of them are U.S. citizens, and the other holds a valid visa. The students later denied the woman's account of their conversation, but police say the men could face charges if they were perpetrating a hoax...