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Marijuana Helps Control Diabetes, Promotes Good Cholesterol, Leads to Lower Waist Size, and Lowers Bladder Cancer Risk, Studies Show

Smoking marijuana has "remarkable" effect on diabetic problems and may lower risk of getting the disease, a study published on Wednesday states. This news comes a few days after a presentation at the annual conference of the American Urological Association that links heavy pot use to a much lower r ... More >>

Talk of the Nation

All Your Phoenix Fall Gardening Questions Answered by Tomato Pro Suzanne Vilardi

Today we're introducing a new feature on Chow Bella, Now Growing, in which Kate Crowley talks to local gardeners about what's in the ground at the moment. Have a topic you'd like to see covered? Leave word in the comments section. See Also: - Phoenix Gets Its First Seed Library - Urban Farming 101 ... More >>

8: Bob McClendon

From now 'til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers -- Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you'll know; for others, it'll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you're here, check out our 100 Creat ... More >>

Should PTSD Be a Qualifying Ailment for Medical Marijuana in Arizona?

Yesterday, we brought you the top five reasons why post-traumatic stress disorder should be on the list of qualifying ailments under the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act.We propose these reasons because the state's Department of Health Services recently rejected adding PTSD to the list. Medical marijua ... More >>

Top Five Reasons Why PTSD Should be a Qualifying Ailment in Arizona for Medical Marijuana

See also: Marijuana Is Real Medicine for a Long List of Ills See also: Medical Marijuana Is Under Attack in Arizona Again -- But This Time, Voters and Patients Hold the High Ground Last week, the state Department of Health Services rejected the chance to add PTSD to the list of qualifying ailment ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats Baseball Continues To Surprise By Reaching College World Series Finals

No one, probably including the University of Arizona's head baseball coach Andy Lopez would have predicted when the season started in February that the Wildcats would make it to the College World Series in Omaha. But they did. And on Sunday night, Arizona will oppose either Arkansas or South Caroli ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats Baseball Team Back In Omaha For College World Series

Back in the day, the University of Arizona pennially had one of the nation's best baseball teams, and trips to the College World Series in Omaha were both expected and commonplace.But times got tougher and tougher after the Wildcats' 1986 championship win, with only one appearance in the Big Dance s ... More >>

Heather Green's "Vermillion Remains" Recounts the Fishing Camp Culture of La Cholla

Arizona's Public Universities Plan All-Time High Tuition; Could Go Higher if Senate Has Its Way

​Tuition increases proposed late last week by Arizona's three public university presidents make getting a public education in Arizona pricier than ever. Worse, they were probably underestimated -- again. Presidents of the three universities sent their pitch for new tuition increases to the Arizon ... More >>

Morning Poll: Do Arizona Wildcats Stand a Chance Against Duke?

​If you're like us, your NCAA bracket is already worthless leading into the Sweet 16. But the University of Arizona's still giving some Arizonans a reason to pay attention to college basketball -- if only for one month out of the year.The Wildcats won a stunner over the Texas Longhorns yesterday, ... More >>

Institute for Political Civility Opens at U of A in Response to Tucson Shootings. Greta Van Susteren to Serve on Board

Greta Van Susteren ​If any good came from the shooting rampage in Tucson last month, it's an institution opening today at the University of Arizona with the goal of getting politicos to tone down the rhetoric.The National Institute for Civil Discourse opens today in Tucson. The organization is des ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Nipped By Hated San Antonio Spurs In Playoff-Like Battle

It's so early in the season for us to call the Phoenix Suns 112-110 loss last night to their arch-rival San Antonio Spurs last night a game with "playoff-like intensity," but it was.​Both teams fought as if the game really meant something, not just one of 82 regular season games before the real se ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: On Manifest Destiny and a Love For Jewelry

Jan Brewer Signs Sunday Morning Booze Bill

www.demotivateus.com​Congratulations, drunks! You will no longer find yourself in that pesky situation of not being able to buy booze at 6 a.m. on a Sunday.Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill yesterday that relaxes laws regulating the sale of alcohol on Sunday mornings.Currently, there is a statewid ... More >>

Rattlesnake Season in Arizona: Five Ways to Avoid Grim Death

www.damstore.net​ It's that special time of year in Arizona -- flowers blossoming, the sun's warming up, and as a result, rattlesnakes throughout the state are waking up from their winter naps That is, the vicious monsters are ready to bite the shit out of anyone they see. All right, rattle ... More >>

Psychedelic Mushrooms May Help Treat Drug Addiction; Somebody Call the Irony Police

www.theemptyroom.com​Congratulations drug addicts -- doctors hope to prove that the cure for your addiction is the actual cause of your affliction: More drugs!Doctors from around the globe are meeting in San Jose, California, this week to revisit the topic of hallucinogenic drugs used t ... More >>

University of Arizona Researcher Given $1.7 Million Grant to Study Ecstasy

www.cheezburger.com​A researcher at the University of Arizona will spend the next five years studying the effects of the party drug ecstasy, thanks to a $1.7 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the university announced Friday.Terrence Monks, head of U of A's Department of Phar ... More >>

Arizona State Men's Basketball Has Nice Weekend As Wildcats Falter Down In Tucson

If it wasn't a sure thing that the University of Arizona men's basketball team will have to win the Pac-10 conference championship next month to keep its streak of 25 consecutive years in the NCAA tournament intact -- it is now.   ​That's because the Wildcats stunningly lost at home ... More >>

Great Start To Weekend As ASU, Arizona Men's BB Teams Win

At the moment, most pundits are predicting that the once-powerful Pac-10 men's basketball conference will only win only one bid to next month's NCAA tournament--the automatic spot that goes to the winner of the postseason tourney in Los Angeles.​That's because the league happens to be in one of th ... More >>

Hot Links: Dinosaurs, Mannequins, and Throwing Rocks

​A Mesa native has discovered a new dinosaur. Sterling Nesbitt was featured in an article in Science magazine last month, which detailed his team's discovery of a new dinosaur species during a four-year dig in New Mexico. The new species may fill in evolutionary gaps between early dinosaurs and tw ... More >>

New Study Finds Soda Fountains Squirt Fecal Bacteria; U of A Biologist "Not Too Surprised"

www.ebaumsworld.com​A recent study published in the International Journal of Food Microbiology's January print edition made a rather shitty discovery for soda-lovers everywhere: nearly half of all soda fountains are spraying high levels of fecal bacteria into people's cups.Anyone familiar wi ... More >>

One-Loss Suns Try to Keep it That Way With Games in Boston and D.C. Lotsa Luck!

Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen are next on the Suns' docket. ​ After getting peppered on Wednesday night by the Orlando Magic, the 4-1 Phoenix Suns continue their beast-of-an-East-Coast swing with one super toughie and one winnable one. (If, that is, they don't go all 2008-09 Sun ... More >>

University of Arizona Biologist Discovers the "Ghandi" of the Spider World

www.junkiepictures.com​A biologist at the University of Arizona made an interesting discovery that might make some people think twice before heading for the hills when they find a spider in the house.

Hot Links: San Tan Valley, Abortion Bills, and Frito-Lays

Residents in an unincorporated community near Queen Creek have voted to name the area San Tan Valley. About 2,000 people voted, choosing the name over another consideration, Bella Vista...Residents of northeast Mesa held a meeting Tuesday night with Councilwoman Dina Higgins to discuss institu ... More >>

One Joke Over the Line

Pissing off Canadians is fine for this world-class stoner

Playboy Labels UofA a Top Party School; ASU Falls to Number 15

Arizona State University is fine for a weekend romp, but if students who want more female scenery and action ought to spend their college years at the University of Arizona, says Playboy magazine. The latest Playboy listing of top party schools puts UofA squarely in the Number Five, behind the ... More >>

Hot Links: Woman Crawling on Freeway Causes Crash; Illegal Immigrant College Grads Can't Find Jobs; State Losing Jobs at Faster Pace

A woman crawling on the U.S. 60 freeway was hit by three cars and caused a collision -- police don't know what she was doing there; she probably didn't know, either. Tempe's photo enforcement program is raking in dough. Navajo down: Phoenix Symphony releases CD of oratorio inspired by a Native Amer ... More >>

Phoenix Suns vs. Portland Trail Blazers

Baseline Killers

B-ball doc examines peach-fuzz superstars

Redemption Song

Twenty years ago, Ken Lamberton seduced one of his junior high students. Here's what's happened since

Happy Trails

Hike! For the love of dogs

Metal and Might

Copperstate Football likes its grass stains the old-fashioned way

Roll Call

New roller derby league sets wheels in motion

Tortilla Flap

UFOs? No, frisbees in either corn or flour

Stoned Cold

The party is on at "Under the Influence," the Valley's premier underground hip-hop radio show

Best Television Sports Interviewer

Todd Walsh
KTVK

Whistle Stops

Proposed legislation a trap, critics say

Retaliatory Tales

Cases from around the state illustrate university employees' unhappy encounters with whistleblowing

Committing the Truth

After years of retaliation because she was a whistleblower, a leading Alzheimer's researcher can vouch for how poorly Arizona law protects university employees who report waste or fraud

Salad Genes

Letters

Far Out

Eyes accustomed to crisp landscapes may find Imag(in)ing Mars otherworldly

Prickly Subjects

Desert close-ups probe Lee Friedlander's psyche

The Outer Space Undergroud

Arizona's quiet visionaries yearn to make the state a hub of commercial space travel

TAKING IT IN THE SHORTS

POIGNANT TIMES AT POISON CONTROLMEDICAL AND EMERGENCY EXPERTS FEAR CLOSURE OF PHOENIX FACILITY

ARIZONA, HOME OF THE OK QUARREL

HEY, WE'RE THE GRAND CANYON STATE. WE LIKE BIG SCHISMS.

ASK MY CAT ABOUT COYOTE BREATH

KING OF THE MUCK RAKERS

GO AHEAD. THROW AWAY YOUR FUTURE. GARBOLOGIST BILL RATHJE WILL BE HAPPY.