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University of California-San Diego

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Smoking Medical Marijuana Helps MS Patients, Study Says

    A common critique of medical cannabis is that there's no way anything "smoked" can be beneficial to someone of ill health. This simple and convenient theory -- smoking (tobacco) is bad, therefore anything that can be smoked must also be bad -- was recently repeated by former White House drug czar Jo ... More >>

  • News

    March 2, 2011

    California Family Courts Helping Pedophiles, Batterers Get Child Custody

    A common critique of medical cannabis is that there's no way anything "smoked" can be beneficial to someone of ill health. This simple and convenient theory -- smoking (tobacco) is bad, therefore anything that can be smoked must also be bad -- was recently repeated by former White House drug czar Jo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    UC System on Track to Stop Educating California

    No College for YouUC president Mark Yudof told the Board of Regents yesterday that the university system is facing a crippling $1 billion budget shortfall next year, leaving the UC system no other choice but to stop educating students. The Chronicle sums up the debacle: The university has alrea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Newsom Already Back in San Francisco, Speaks at America's Cup Event

    Back Again​Well, as predicted, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't making news in Sacramento, which is maybe why he came back down to San Francisco today to take the stage. To his credit, Newsom did start out sitting in the audience at the America's Cup press event this morning, but it wasn't long before ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    Mexican Macroeconomics

    Back Again​Well, as predicted, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't making news in Sacramento, which is maybe why he came back down to San Francisco today to take the stage. To his credit, Newsom did start out sitting in the audience at the America's Cup press event this morning, but it wasn't long before ... More >>

  • News

    November 17, 2010

    Ibogaine has helped addicts kick meth and heroin. Is it the trip that does the trick?

    Back Again​Well, as predicted, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't making news in Sacramento, which is maybe why he came back down to San Francisco today to take the stage. To his credit, Newsom did start out sitting in the audience at the America's Cup press event this morning, but it wasn't long before ... More >>

  • News

    February 24, 2010

    Dead Sea

    An unpublished study shows the surprisingly lethal effects of the Cosco Busan oil spill. Why are government scientists helping the ship's owner keep it a secret?

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Hope You Enjoyed CMCR Report, Because That's All, Folks

    It's not news that marijuana may have healing qualities: after all, medicinal cannabis has been (sort of) the law of the land since 1996, when California voters passed Proposition 215 . Still, it was a very big deal when the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research released the results last Wednesday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2007

    Filling the Ranks: Immigrants in the U.S. Military

    It's not news that marijuana may have healing qualities: after all, medicinal cannabis has been (sort of) the law of the land since 1996, when California voters passed Proposition 215 . Still, it was a very big deal when the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research released the results last Wednesday ... More >>

  • Music

    April 19, 2006

    Made in the Shade

    The Jade Shader gives San Diego's washed-up scene its moment in the sun

  • News

    December 14, 2005

    Super-Hyped Infection

    Sensational headlines coupled with fearmongering public health reports have HIV-positive men in San Francisco running scared. It doesn't have to be that way.

  • News

    January 26, 2005

    Ethnic Warfare

    A bitchy academic fight within SFSU's College of Ethnic Studies puts the future of the program in question

  • Music

    February 12, 2003

    Rubb You the Wrong Way

    Whistling mufflers, car maniacs, and KRON-TV spawn an Internet icon

  • News

    July 24, 2002

    The Revolutionary Test for Lung Cancer

    ... the medical establishment doesn’t want you to have. Yet.

  • Calendar

    December 12, 2001

    Hold On a Minute!

    Ecologists are still trying to spin their phony save the whale campaign

  • News

    November 21, 2001

    Crying Whale

    Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

  • News

    October 31, 2001

    Cell Therapy

    Bay Area researchers are using a particular cancer to produce neuronlike cells that, when injected into the brain, seem to reverse the effects of stroke. Is the treatment a historic medical breakthrough, or a reckless ploy to attract investors?

  • News

    March 21, 2001

    Sweat, Steel, and Stealth

    Retrofitting the Bay Bridge will take five years, hundreds of workers, a million bolts, and 19 million pounds of iron. The hardest part? Making sure no one notices.

  • Music

    September 9, 1998

    Hear This

    Retrofitting the Bay Bridge will take five years, hundreds of workers, a million bolts, and 19 million pounds of iron. The hardest part? Making sure no one notices.

  • Film

    October 1, 1997

    Up in the Valley

    A critical guide to week one of the Mill Valley Film Fest

  • Calendar

    March 5, 1997

    Mulch

    A critical guide to week one of the Mill Valley Film Fest

  • News

    January 29, 1997

    Pinstriped Medicine

    How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

  • Dining

    November 13, 1996

    Dish

    How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

  • Calendar

    October 16, 1996

    Mulch

    How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

  • Calendar

    March 6, 1996

    Night+Day

    How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

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