Entourage effect: The entourage effect is a hypothesis that cannabis compounds, other than the cannabinoids tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), act synergistically with cannabinoids to modulate the overall psychoactive effects of the plant [1, 2]. The effect has also been applied in the case of magic (psilocybin) mushrooms, with other compounds besides psilocybin having been hypothesized to also contribute to the effects of the mushrooms [3]. More
Author Dr. Aaron Kheriaty has 4.6 out of 5 stars (with 28 reviews). There is a cure for medicine’s ills, but it’s going to hurt. Effective treatment, as every doctor knows, begins with accurate diagnosis.
Making the Cut is about what’s going on in the house of medicine. Medicine got sick.
One in three people now distrust the healthcare system.
Following the pandemic, two-thirds of Americans doubt medical scientists will act in the best interest of the public.
We are grappling with an epidemic of chronic illness—heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, stroke, and chronic lung and kidney disease—affecting six in ten Americans, which medicine seems powerless to fix.
The overall life expectancy of Americans has declined for the first time since the Great Depression. Not only are trust levels tanking,
the number of doctors is dropping dramatically.
Physicians are quitting in droves.
One in five doctors will leave medicine in the next two years.
One in three will reduce their hours.
A doctor, we assume, wounds in order to heal. “You’re going to feel a sharp pain!” she says, before making the cut. Today, though, all too often the doctor wounds without healing. Why?
In Making the Cut, Dr. Kheriaty, one of the country's leading public intellectuals and preeminent bioethicists, reveals what medicine gave him—and what it sometimes took from him.
This book is about how he grew from an overconfident pre-med to an ambivalent medical student to a capable physician who had fallen in love with medicine—even if his lover has turned into a prostitute of late.
While presenting a damning diagnosis of contemporary medicine, Making the Cut also applies the wounding scalpel in order to heal it. More
(Access Hollywood) Dec. 3, 2025: Late-night hosts are not holding back after Trump appeared to fall asleep during his latest cabinet meeting. On Tuesday, Dec. 2, the senile president assembled members of his administration for a televised meeting in which he seemingly closed his eyes at times, prompting speculation if he was dozing off. Hours after the gathering, comedians, including Kimmel, Colbert, and Fallon, mocked the moments during their respective shows. “Tell us again how sleepy Joe is, will you?” Kimmel joked during Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” episode. #JimmyKimmel #StephenColbert #Trump
0:00 - Introduction to Trump's meeting
0:45 - Jimmy Kimmel reacts to video
2:10 - Colbert also comments on viral video
3:00 - Fallon jokes about Trump's Truth Social posts
4:15 - Karoline Leavitt lies responds to criticism
HORROR: Shocking stabbing of young Ukrainian woman in Charlotte, NC...and why national media ISN'T covering it
(Megyn Kelly) Sept. 8, 2025: Megyn Kelly is joined by Rich Lowry and Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review to discuss the horrifying [mind control?] stabbing of a young Ukrainian woman in Charlotte, NC [here because the Pentagon, CIA, EU, and NATO provoked Russia into invading, while concocting a story of a power mad Vlad Putin wanting to take over the world like Hitler when the unacceptable truth is Pres. Putin was pushed to react and did], the decision by the national media not to cover it, details about the incident and the repeat offender, shocking remarks made by the Charlotte mayor, and more.
The new Margaret Cho? Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka [the u's are silent] is known for finding humor in the dysfunction of her immigrant family.
Born in Taiwan to Japanese and Taiwanese parents, she traveled from Japan to Los Angeles with her grandmother and mother when she was 8 for what she thought was a short vacation.
In fact, they were moving.
It would be years before Okatsuka saw her father again. She later described being "kidnapped" by her grandmother on a 2023 episode of This American Life.
"My grandma and I hadn't really talked about it in depth until [then]," she says. "And it helped that I got to do with Ira [Glass, host of This American Life] and the thousands and thousands of thousands of listeners at the same time, then I'm really not alone." More + AUDIO
(Eye Opening) In this video, I share my personal experience of a spiritual emergency, a spiritual crisis, kundalini syndrome, or psychic trauma (however one wishes to label it) that happened not too long after I had a life-changing experience of my third eye suddenly opening.
The seven main chakras along the spine are nexus points associated with different areas of life, the lower three being rooted to the earth in the body, the heart being the centered transitional point, and the upper three "spiritual" spinning energy wheels, which is the literal meaning of chakra. The lowest is survival (lum), the next is sexual (vum), the third is digestion and assimilation (rum); the fourth is the heart (yum), a green-hued area vibrating frequency; the fifth is the throat (hum) about expression and speaking our truth; the sixth is the most famous, the third eye (aum or om) between the brows; the seventh is silent at the crown of the head, full release.
I ended up hospitalized for a week, heavily medicated, and diagnosed with "schizophrenia" and "bipolar disorder" ["mania"]. I am neither of those.
Western medicine doesn't know how else to label what was happening to me. I was simply having a spiritual awakening and did not have any guidance, so I slipped into fear.
The intention of this video is to give some advice so that others do not have to go through what I did.
The author of Origins of Schizophrenia Revealed, Phillip Craig Garrido, is accused of kidnapping 11 y.o. Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 and raping, falsely imprisoning, and fathering her two children. Lisa Campbell (center) and UCB officer Ally Jacobs at news conference today taking credit for his arrest (AP/SF Chronicle, Paul Chinn).
BERKELEY, California — Two quick-thinking police employees at the University of California Berkeley campus described today how they set in motion Jaycee Lee Dugard's release after nearly two decades of captivity when they encountered her alleged captor on campus. Phillip Garrido, a white male who was distributing bizarre religious material with two girls, seemed incoherent and mentally unstable, Lisa Campbell said. The girls wore drab-colored dresses, were unusually subdued, had unnaturally pale complexions, and appeared robotic and rehearsed when they spoke... More>>
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