NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. companies cannot stop talking about marijuana, hoping in part they can catch investor interest as the booming economy around the drug lifts revenues throughout the supply chain. FILE PHOTO: A fully budded marijuana plant ready …
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‘Chemsex’ risk messages should target all, survey suggests
(Reuters) – Combining sex and drugs is common among all genders and sexual orientations, with people in Britain more likely to engage in the practice than Americans, Australians or other Europeans, according to a global survey. The findings suggest that …
Read More »Pot for pets: U.S. federal law puts vets into a quandary
(Reuters) – A wave of medical research is providing fresh evidence that marijuana may help dogs and cats cope with arthritis, epilepsy, anxiety and other maladies without the side effects of traditional drugs, but veterinarians are afraid to prescribe it …
Read More »Vaping, other tobacco products tied to higher risk that teens will try marijuana
(Reuters Health) – Adolescents who have smoked e-cigarettes are more than three times more likely to move on to marijuana than teens who have never tried vaping, a U.S. study suggests. At 10 high schools in Los Angeles, a total …
Read More »Pot smoking by parents tied to risk of psychotic episodes in kids
(Reuters Health) – Cannabis use by mothers or fathers during pregnancy, or even only before pregnancy, is associated with an increased risk of psychotic-like episodes in their children, a Dutch study suggests. FILE PHOTO: Various-sized joints for sale are pictured …
Read More »Canada’s Manulife partners with Loblaw unit to advise medical marijuana patients
TORONTO (Reuters) – Manulife Financial Corp, Canada’s biggest insurance company, said on Tuesday it will partner with a drugstore chain owned by Loblaw Companies to provide advice to patients whose medical marijuana use it covers. FILE PHOTO: A marijuana plant …
Read More »Britain to legalize medicinal use of cannabis
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is to allow doctors to prescribe medicinal cannabis, following a relaxation of the law governing drugs derived from the banned plant. FILE PHOTO: Cannabis plants are seen in a greenhouse at the headquarters of AGES agency …
Read More »Governor of violent Mexican state wants regulation of opium poppies
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The governor of a violent, crime-ridden Mexican state that produces much of the local opium used to make heroin on Tuesday backed a proposal from the next government to decriminalize cultivation of opium poppies. Olga Sanchez, …
Read More »Americans’ view of marijuana is rosy, and unscientific
(Reuters Health) – Americans seem to have developed a very rosy view of marijuana that isn’t backed up by science, a new study suggests. An electronic billboard displays a marijuana hashtag at Times Square in New York, U.S., November 7, …
Read More »Cigarette use declines among U.S. young women, but marijuana blunt use rises
(Reuters Health) – Cigarette use decreased among young women – including pregnant women – during the past decade in the U.S., according to a new study. But, researchers found, use of marijuana blunts rose. A blunt is a cigar that’s …
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