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County Takes West Nile Fight To The Air Aerial Spraying Over Sacramento To Begin Monday Night POSTED: 6:56 am PDT August 8, 2005 UPDATED: 6:44 pm PDT August 8, 2005 SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Sacramento Vector Control officials Monday will begin aerial spraying over a large part of Sacramento County in an effort to fight mosquitoes and the West Nile virus. A 71,000-acre area from Interstate 5 to Citrus Heights will be sprayed beginning at 8 p.m. The spraying is expected to last until midnight. The pesticide that will be sprayed is a pyrethins, derived from chrysanthemums. It is the same...

A man of 36 is believed to have become the first person in Britain to die directly from cannabis poisoning. Lee Maisey smoked six cannabis cigarettes a day for 11 years, an inquest heard. His death, which was registered as having been caused by cannabis toxicity, led to new warnings about the drug, which is due to be reclassified this month as a less dangerous one. "This type of death is extremely rare," Prof John Henry, a toxicologist at Imperial College, London, said after the inquest at Haverfordwest, west Wales. "I have not seen anything like this before. It corrects...

The Paraquat Principle By Duane D. Freese It's rarely wise to throw caution to the wind. But the precautionary principle? As it is currently promoted by some environmental organizations and practiced by some countries, it deserves to be blown away. The problems of the principle received a thorough airing from its critics at a forum sponsored by the Marshall Institute, a Washington-based think tank focusing on science policy. The forum at the National Press Club last week, "Uses and Misuses of Science in Regulating Chemicals: Unintended Consequences for the Developing World," reviewed application of the precautionary principle to new biotechnology...