Kesher Talk

Sylvia Foa, who has the unenviable job of Israel correspondent for the Village Voice (where she has to put up with ignorant hostile letters to the editor every time she does a story, no matter how sympathetic to the Palestinians she is), reports on an intriguing antidote to Saddam's nerve gas.

Green Leaf [the marijuana legalization advocacy group] cites research conducted by the U.S. Army and the Israel-based Pharmos Corporation. Rats were exposed to nerve gas and then injected with dexanabinol, a synthetic substitute for hashish. The army tests reportedly showed that the injection reduced brain damage by more than 70 percent.

However, a Pharmos researcher "pooh-poohed the notion that a joint would work just as well." Darn.

posted by Judith @ 1/08/2003 04:57:23 PM