Marijuana: What science tells us and why it’s still a schedule 1 drug

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    Guests: Sara Jane Ward, Jonathan Caulkins, Stephen Corn

    Host Mary Cummings-Jordan discusses what science tells us about marijuana, and the government’s refusal to change its status as a schedule I drug. She’ll be joined in-studio by SARA JANE WARD, an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology in the Center for Substance Abuse Research at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. And for perspective on pot, its potency and its public perception,  Mary will be joined by JONATHAN CAULKINS, a Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College and author of “Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know,” and by STEPHEN CORN, a board certified physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital in Boston, who’s helping educate medical professionals and patients about marijuana through TheAnswerPage.com.

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