“Baby boomers have this perception that marijuana is about fun and freedom. It isn’t; it’s about dependency, disease and dysfunction.”
John Walters, director of the US Office of National Drug Control Policy, after a federal raid on a Californian facility providing medical marijuana (The Guardian, London, 11 August)
“I don’t think we have to worry about invisible people walking around any time soon.”
Jason Valentine, researcher in one of the teams working on an “invisibility cloak” made from a metamaterial that can bend light the wrong way (Mail Online, London, 11 August)
“The cure is not to reduce the price, but, on the contrary, to raise…
