[Donald Abrams, MD, also commented on the biased federal approach to research. In the late '90s Abrams conducted a federally read more

[Donald Abrams, MD, also commented on the biased federal approach to research. In the late '90s Abrams conducted a federally funded study to determine the safety of smoked marijuana in AIDS patients taking protease inhibitors.] At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial because NIDA has a mandate from Congress that they could only supply marijuana for research to show that it might be dangerous, ... Subsequently NIDA has changed their mechanism so we can look for benefit.

The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do read more

The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do you believe in?

Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and read more

Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.

We have to be more aggressive on the boards and deny their penetration. We also have to shoot better than read more

We have to be more aggressive on the boards and deny their penetration. We also have to shoot better than we have all season.

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

We wrestled a very solid match. We're pleased with our progress and we have two weeks of practice to sharpen read more

We wrestled a very solid match. We're pleased with our progress and we have two weeks of practice to sharpen up before the VOL Tournament.

She portrayed more knowledge and passion about drug control policy than I had ever imagined one person could know about read more

She portrayed more knowledge and passion about drug control policy than I had ever imagined one person could know about any subject.

If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. read more

If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. In other words, we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

The great problem with doing that in real time is people live in real time and almost everybody's default forecasting read more

The great problem with doing that in real time is people live in real time and almost everybody's default forecasting method is to extrapolate the recent past.