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It's High Time We Talked About Cannabis
November 5th, 2021 | Season 3 | 55 mins 55 secs
cannabis, coronavirus, covid 19, fear, horror, immunology, marijuana, pot, scicomm, science, science fiction, toxicology
Cannabis continues to spark conversations as popular opinion shifts and its future legal status is debated. However, a long history of stigmatization that led to current federal regulations makes it difficult to study. This week, we're talking to Dr. Barb Kaplan, an Associate Professor for Mississippi State University, whose research looks at how cannabis alters the immune response. In the news segment, we talk about the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) scheduling process that limits cannabis access to researchers, as well as the science of fear, and the FDA's recent approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for use in ages 5 and older.