John Schwarz, Father Of String Theory, To Headline Medical Marijuana Conference In D.C.

A medical marijuana conference planned for next week will not feature activists, politicians or even law enforcement. The event's main speaker will be John Schwarz, a theoretical physics professor at the California Institute of Technology and a father of string theory. Aside from an editorial published in The Huffington Post late last year, the conference will mark Schwarz's first time speaking publicly on the issue. "Being a physicist, not a physician, I don't usually comment on issues in medic...