HELENA, Mont. A judge has ruled that Montana’s medical marijuana law doesn’t shield providers of the drug from federal prosecution, delivering a new blow to an industry reeling from a state and federal crackdown.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy on Friday dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by 14 individuals and businesses that were among more than two dozen medical marijuana providers raided by federal agents last year across Montana.
The providers claimed the raids violated their constitutional rights in part because state law passed by voter initiative in 2004 allows them to grow and produce the drug for medical consumption.
Molloy wrote in his order that the providers can be prosecuted under the federal Controlled Substances Act even if they are following state law.
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HOUSTON Dr. Dora Angelaki, professor and chair of the Department of Neuroscience at BCM, has been awarded the inaugural Pradel Research Award in Neuroscience by the National Academy of Sciences.
The $50,000 award is being given to Angelaki in recognition of her discoveries on mechanisms of representation of vestibular sensory stimuli within the mammalian brain. Her work has clarified how vestibular and visual signals combine to mediate perception and to direct appropriate motor behaviors, which have important implications in the design of more effective therapies to treat disorders of balance and movement.
“I am deeply honored to be the first recipient of the Pradel Research Award in Neuroscience in recognition of our work,” said Angelaki.
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When an infant has a cold, youd do just about anything to get his nose clear so you can all sleep. Up to and including jamming one of those mucus-sucking syringes into his nose while he screams. Only, they dont work. All they do is make baby cry harder.
NoseFrida works, even though the idea is completely gross. Its basically a tiny gas-siphoning setup. If youve ever hung out with delinquents youll recognize it. One end goes in babys nose, one end goes in the parents mouth, a filter in between makes sure you dont actually get anything gross in your mouth.
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Some moms put sunglasses on their kids because they look adorable! Few things say stylish baby like a little cutie rocking a pair of sunglasses.
I bought my son his first pair of sunglasses right after he came home to us (via adoption). He was 10 months old. I noticed that every time wed walk outside or Id pull him out of his car seat, he would squint his eyes and attempt to cover them immediately. Granted, we lived in Arizona, where the sun shines 364 days a year, but sunlight clearly made him uncomfortable.
And yes, he looked darling in those sunglasses.
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Question: How important are natural ingredients?
By the time she heads out the front door, the modern woman has spritzed, sudsed, and slathered herself in more than 127 different chemicals, many of them more toxic than beautifying.
So how can you look and feel great while safeguarding your health? Get smart and go green from head to toe with the help of eco-expert Gillian Deacon. In The Green Body Guide, you’ll learn how to read the ingredients to identify and understand the preservatives that are bad for your body and damaging to the earth, including formaldehyde in deodorant, nail polish, soap, shampoo, and shaving cream; coal tar in hair dyes; lead in lipstick; and many more.
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HIV-related stigma has been associated with depression, poor adherence, and nondisclosure of HIV-positive status, all of which can lead to increased transmission of HIV and poorer health outcomes for HIV-infected individuals. The Berger HIV Stigma scale has been used in multiple settings but never adapted and validated in India, home to the worlds second largest HIV-infected population. We assessed the reliability and validity of a Tamil translation of the original 40-item scale, and conducted confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses to assess cultural appropriateness and abbreviate the scale. Reliability and validity were high (alpha = 0.91; testretest reliability ICC = 0.89). Exp Read more…