Teasing out the insulin effect. On the face of it, the study seems to come out of left field A group of researchers claimed that marijuana smokers showed 16 per cent lower fasting insulin levels than ...
Noncompliance and the paranoid style. Originally published June 27, 2007 Note In the everlasting battle between consumers and Big Pharma, amid a string of recent exposes concerning whose doctor took w...
Prohibition and the tobacco control endgame. Despite all our efforts in recent years to reduce the percentage of Americans who smoke cigarettescurrently about one in fivethe idea of full-blown cigaret...
Hendrik Hertzberg on the hypocrisy of the hip. In a blog post at the New Yorker last week, Hendrik Hertzberg spotlighted a recent joke made by the President of the United States at the White House Cor...