David Bienenstock
20 posts
Marijuana Doesn’t Lower IQ, Except in the Media
Back in 2012, when a Duke University study purported to find a link between chronic marijuana use and…
October 24, 2014
The Clinic: PA. Senate Approves Medical Marijuana, Gov. Readies Veto
Every Democrat in the Pennsylvania State Senate, and 20 out of 27 Republicans, voted last week in support…
September 29, 2014
The Clinic: Colorado Rejects New Limits on Cannabis Caregivers
After hearing testimony from marijuana caregivers who specialize in growing cannabis strains specifically bred for pediatric use on…
September 19, 2014
The Clinic: Medical Marijuana in Oklahoma?
Prior to the 2012 election, when Colorado and Washington state voters approved legalizing marijuana by wide margins, longtime…
August 25, 2014
The Clinic: Can Marijuana Save the NFL?
Earlier this year, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and author of Marijuana Reconsidered and…
August 8, 2014
The Clinic: Get Drunk, Get High and Take a Test Drive (for Science!)
By almost every imaginable metric, marijuana legalization appears to have been given the green light in America, from…
July 29, 2014
The Clinic: Arizona Adds PTSD to MedCan Conditions
Just a week after University of Arizona researcher Sue Sisley was fired from her job, effectively shutting down…
July 26, 2014
The Clinic: Conn. Pharmacists Go To Marijuana School
When Connecticut’s medical marijuana dispensaries finally open their doors, likely sometime this summer or fall, they’ll each have…
July 18, 2014
The Clinic: The Feds Burn Money Studying Weed-Friendly Twitter Feeds
The federal government has been blocking vital research into marijuana’s medicinal benefits for decades — an anti-science crusade…
July 9, 2014
The Clinic: Researcher Fired for Studying Marijuana and PTSD
While the past two years have seen the legalization of marijuana for all adults in two states, the…
July 4, 2014