--- title: Health: How Marijuana Can Help Mend Broken Bones description: Mending broken bones with marijuana, how parking makes housing less affordable, the cost of skipping the last deal with Iran and more. canonical: https://time.com/3969618/marijuana-mend-broken-bones/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-23T20:35:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:20.688Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Marijuana Can Help Mend Broken Bones og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3969618/marijuana-mend-broken-bones/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Marijuana Can Help Mend Broken Bones twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Marijuana Can Help Mend Broken Bones by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 23, 2015 8:35 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 23, 2015 8:35 PM UTC **1\.** [**Can marijuana help broken bones heal?**](http://www.timesofisrael.com/joint-relief-marijuana-helps-mend-broken-bones/) By Judah Ari Gross in the Times of Israel **2\.** [**Parking spaces make it harder to build affordable housing.**](http://www.vox.com/2015/7/15/8970119/parking-affordable-housing) By Joseph Stromberg in Vox **3\.** [**A decade ago, the west didn’t take a similar deal with Iran, and paid with a decade of regional chaos.**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/iran-deal-ten-years-late-by-gareth-evans-2015-07) By Gareth Evans at Project Syndicate **4\.** [**Want better police relations with the community? Let teenagers train the cops.**](http://www.citylab.com/crime/2015/07/want-better-police-relations-with-the-community-let-local-youth-train-them/399134/) By Brentin Mock in CityLab **5\.** [**Could today’s militias dividing Iraq and Syria become the peacekeepers of a future truce?**](http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/07/22/militias-in-syria-iraq-a-blessing-in-disguise/) By Barbara F. Walter in Political Violence at a Glance  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3969618/marijuana-mend-broken-bones/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3969618/marijuana-mend-broken-bones/"},"headline":"How Marijuana Can Help Mend Broken Bones","datePublished":"2015-07-23T20:35:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:20.688Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3969618/marijuana-mend-broken-bones/","keywords":["Innovation","Marijuana","Iran","police","ISIS","parking"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3969618/marijuana-mend-broken-bones/","name":"How Marijuana Can Help Mend Broken Bones"}}]}] ```