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Cannabis, neuroscience and TV: A ‘joint’ enterprise

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 03/12/2015 - 09:16

UK: What’s it like to turn your science into 90 minutes of TV? The researchers involved in Channel 4’s Drugs Live share their experience.

Scientists are increasingly encouraged to share their findings with wider audiences through public engagement activities like science fairs, festivals, comedy, and radio and TV broadcasting. Activities like this can be very worthwhile, both for the public and the scientists, but they do present some challenges.

Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial, which aired recently in the UK, tried to be a lot of things; it’s rare to see live television tackling scientific documentary, education on safe drug use, stories from users themselves, and debates on international drug policy. For us and our colleagues at University College London (UCL) and Imperial College, it represented the conclusion of two years of work on a major research project, largely funded by Channel 4 (with DrugScience and the ...

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http://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2015/mar/11/cannabis-neuroscience-and-tv-a-joint-enterprise

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