“In the Internet era, members of the general public have unprecedented access to scientific facts and figures. Among the resources now available at one’s fingertips is the National Center for Biotechnology Information database. NCBI is an NIH.gov electronic search engine that allows the public to instantly read the abstracts of hundreds of thousands of peer-reviewed scientific papers on virtually any subject, including an estimated 20,000 papers on cannabis alone. So why then does the head of the National Institutes of Health purport to know so little about the science of pot?”
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/health-czar-shows-amazing-ignorance-about-marijuana-facts?paging=off
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