Now exactly what? A dispensary owner, a scientist, a defense professional and a city supervisor reflect on the new pot law

“We think it’s quite important to look a lot more deeply at medical marijuana,” said the center’s director, Igor Grant, chairman of UC San Diego’s Department of Psychiatry. Since its inception, the center has conducted several short-term studies …

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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon On November 19th Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Library, is running a Wikepedia edit-a-thon to accompany the Wellcome Collection’s ongoing display Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond. The occasion is free and open to the public.

See all stories on this subject APA pledges to deal with Trump administration The APA recently pledged to deal with President-elect Donald Trump and his administration to enhance psychological health in the U.S. “We welcome the chance to work with President-Elect Trump and the Republican politician Party on improving mental health in this …

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That is the mainstream psychiatry/psychology viewpoint. Yet, the question stays. If there is a continuum of autistic perception reaching from the most affordable functioning to the greatest performance, is it possible to be sort of on the spectrum? Is it possible …

See all stories on this topic Teenager anxiety rising in U.S.” Anxiety is a large and growing lethal danger to our U.S. teen population,” wrote Dr. Anne Glowinski of the child and teen psychiatry department at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. More women are typically willing to seek out therapy … See all stories on this subject