Neuroscience of Cannabis + Pink Floyd’s Laser Show

On “420 Eve” head up to Chabot Space and Science Center for a lecture on the neuroscience of cannabis. Then enjoy two Pink Floyd laser light shows. The medicinal, mind-altering, material and nutritional qualities of cannabis have resulted in human relationships with this plant dating back thousands of years. Its complex and unique chemistry has fostered the development of important discoveries in neuroscience. And the current evolution of its social and legal status has created challenges and opportunities for innovative thinking in the realm of public policy.

Schedule
7:00-8:00pm: The Neuroscience of Cannabis
8:15-9:00pm: Pink Floyd’s The Wall Laser Show
9:15-10:00pm: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon Laser Show

Speaker
David Presti
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

David E. Presti is a teaching professor of neurobiology, psychology, and cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty in molecular and cell biology for nearly 30 years. For more than a decade he worked in the clinical treatment of addiction and of post-traumatic-stress disorder at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco. And for the past 15 years, he has been teaching neuroscience and conversing about science with Tibetan Buddhist monastics in India, Bhutan, and Nepal. He has doctorates in molecular biology and biophysics from Caltech, and in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon, and is the author of Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey (2016) and of Mind Beyond Brain: Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal (2018).