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Daily Archives: November 26, 2006
Time – Brain Damage
OK, Time Magazine is entitled to their own list of the top 100 influential albums of all time. But can you possibly take a list like that seriously when it doesn’t include Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”? I … Continue reading
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Context for Kathryn Johnston
Radley has an outstanding (and horrifying — even though I’ve read about all those cases before, it still hurts) piece putting the Johnston story in perspective, with examples from other bad raids. People like Maye and Johnston are supposed to … Continue reading
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Robyn Blumner on Friedman and the Drug War
A refreshing OpEd in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Friedman made right call on legalization … In a Newsweek article Friedman wrote in 1972, he took a step outside his realm of monetary policy and free marketeering and laid out in … Continue reading
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Psilocybin is found to be an effective treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD): Current treatments for obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), including…