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Federal Courts have ruled against the USDA in three cases for failing to carry out proper environment impact assessment, making their original approvals of GM crops illegal. One of the biggest problems with these crops is that they pollute nearby fields, something that is especially worrisome to farmers who grow organic crops, which are becoming more popular every day.
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We’ve written before about how some people think Marijuana is a wonder drug. Now a new scientific study proves that Marijuana is a “valuable medicine” for certain types of intractable pain that cannot be relieved any other way. This should make us take another look at our drug laws?which are NOT working.
In the Boston Globe, Lester Grinspoon reports on a new study in the journal Neurology that “is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine.” According to Grinspoon, who is co-author of Marijuana the Forbidden Medicine, this is nothing new. He writes, “From 1840 to 1900, American and European medical journals published over 100 papers on the therapeutic uses of marijuana, also known as cannabis.”
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Scientific studies of why broccoli and Brussels sprouts taste too bitter to some people but are liked by others have revealed that it’s all in our genes: being wary of bitterness enabled the ancestors of some of us to survive.
Researcher Stephen Wooding says that the ability to taste or not taste bitter foods might have played a role in human evolution and may today account for such health-related behaviors as smoking and vegetable consumption. He studied bitter-taste receptors, the tiny receptacles on the tongue that intercept harsh-tasting chemicals from food. Each of the genes for these receptors comes in several forms, and the forms you carry help determine how you perceive bitter-tasting foods.
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