Look at that report by Guzman. The active ingredients in marijuana can kill or shrink at least nine different kinds of cancerous tumors. (Colorectcal cancer was added to the list after Guzman's article was published.)

But America is so dumbed-down by Drug War politics that people are willing to ignore this information so they can retain the right to beat up on potheads.

People hate potheads so much, they're willing to ignore important information about cancer.

It's really absolutely amazing to see this in action. To see people actually in the process of making this choice.

This is how stupid America has become. The whole country -- the left and the right together.

The whole country has become stupid. Perhaps irredeemably so.

I'm feeling bitter and sarcastic today.

There really is a lot to be learned from science. It's a tragedy that Salon does such a poor job in this area.

I feel so bitter and sarcastic today. What can I say that is nice?

This is a good time to be alive if you want to write bitterly sarcastic post-apocalyptic fiction.

There, see, I'm being positive.

I remember her carping on feminists for years: listen to science, gender studies should be based on science. Science, science, science.

But it's not liberals who are originating these warnings about global warming. These are professional scientists. And who is Camille Paglia to tell any professional scientist that a computer climate model is wrong?

Camille believes in science when she can use science to shame feminists. But when the scientists go against Camille's own politics, suddenly science isn't right any more and and we need to stop listening to scientists.

People like this really piss me off.

Science isn't perfect, but the people who do it for a living know what they're doing.

But let me have your water ration before you go.

Seriously, we're supposed to be heading into a 10 year drought. This is an excellent time to flee SoCal.

You should leave NOW, before leaving becomes too fashionable and they start to turn us away like the Okies were turned away during the Depression.

Any time you're in an environment that is controlled by men who are really really really good with numbers, you're going to see SOME of them behave like they do NOT have a frontal lobe at all.

No executive function. They say anything they want without thinking first.

Some of them will be unable to feel or express empathy, they will be confused about the difference between conversation and harassment, they will refuse any accountability for how they treat other people and they will retaliate if you complain.

Their social function is screwed up, and they're in a profession that rewards them, more or less, for the consequences of having a screwed up social function.

There is hope, though, because they do understand lawsuits, and they can eventually learn to treat human beings better after the desire to treat human beings better has been inspired within them through repeated lawsuits.

Motherhood is a red herring here.

At my graduate alma mater, they had similar problems with extraordinarily juvenile behavior from tenured scientists with IQs of 140 but the social intelligence of a 12 year old.

You would not believe the ridiculous stunts this subgroup of professors got up to. I would tell you some of them but they are long stories. And I get angry when I relive that ugly past.

Tired of repeated lawsuits for gender discrimination in graduate advising, the university board decided to try a novel approach and hire a president who was emotionally an adult.

With a grownup in charge, studies were performed to detect gender bias in graduate advising.

GUESS what they found out -- the juvenile behavior of the socially stunted professors was also ruining the lives of MALE students.

But the male students didn't for some reason feel the kind of permission to defend their own rights as students that the women students felt thanks to feminism.

Once the male students were "activated" by this process, they started speaking up in droves, and the process of graduate education finally came under adult supervision.

Procedures for supervising graduate students were instituted to prevent the kind of juvenile abuses that were perpetrated on graduate advisees by the severely socially stunted subgroup of professors.

I'm sure there are men who work for Bloomberg who have been suffering under the permanent adolescence of their boss.

This isn't really even about gender, although it looks like that on the surface.

This is about the terrible effect that Asperger's traits have on the workplace when the boss won't admit he has any kind problem in his social functioning at all, and encourages a similar pattern of twelve year old behavior from his employees.

Men like him are really hard to reach. His brain isn't wired to understand why anyone has any feelings at all. He doesn't trust human feelings as real things and he doesn't understand that his actions can leave a deep and lasting impact on other human beings.

He just doesn't get it, and unless someone forces the issue through an intimate relationship or a big enough lawsuit, he may NEVER get it, ever, for as long as he lives.

This was the best response I've read so far.

He lied about the IOM report. Bill Clinton ordered that report so that the medical marijuana issue could be "settled with science."

Gore could have taken a position against medical marijuana without lying about that report. But he didn't.

He decided to bolster up his politically calculated position by misrepresenting the conclusions of that report.

He stepped over the line when he did that. If he hadn't stepped over that line, I might still be willing to vote for him.