Credit: AI-generated image Nearly 1 in 12 newborns in the United States in 2020—or about 300,000 infants—were exposed to alcohol, opioids, marijuana or cocaine before they were born. Exposure to these substances puts these newborns at a higher risk for …
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New study shows number of West Virginia infants exposed to drugs in the womb is 10 times higher than national rate
West Virginia University experts on infant health looked at 34,412 births in West Virginia between 2020 and 2022, analyzing how many newborns were exposed to opioids, stimulants or cannabis in the womb and how those exposures relate to adverse health …
Read More »Hershey’s Goes After Cannabis Edibles Companies Over Trademark Infringement – News
Last year, the candy industry leader sent cease and desist letters to several canna-businesses, accusing them of ripping off their popular products to market cannabis edibles. Good Girl Cannabis Co., an edible maker in northern California, and Oakland-based dispensary Harborside …
Read More »Hershey’s Goes After Cannabis Edible Companies Over Trademark Infringement – News
Last year, the candy industry leader sent cease and desist letters to several canna-businesses, accusing them of ripping off their popular products to market cannabis edibles. Good Girl Cannabis Co., an edible maker in northern California, and Oakland-based dispensary Harborside …
Read More »West Virginia Is Pushing to Allow Smokable Cannabis for Medical Patients – News
Html”>purchase and smoke marijuana flower. The current law, which was passed last year but will not go into full effect until 2019, prohibits patients from purchasing or smoking cannabis flower or growing their own plants. Instead, patients are allowed to …
Read More »Medicinal cannabis as an opioid substitute
Opioids are the latest plague in the US. Now that the pharmaceutical industry has created an army of addicts, the drug cartels have leaped in to fill the gap. They are flooding America with heroin and fentanyl. We wanted to …
Read More »New Report: 55% of Pot Smokers in Nation’s Capital are “White-Collar”
White-collar workers account for 55 percent of marijuana consumers in the nation’s capital while another 38 percent of Washington, D.C.’s tokers are reportedly “more likely to have a government job than the average person.” These were just some of the …
Read More »New Study Finds Legal Cannabis Equals Fewer Pharmaceuticals
“Legal access to cannabis may reduce the use of multiple classes of dangerous prescription medications in certain patient populations,” according to the results of a new study. Regardless of what some officials in the Trump administration believe, Americans have a …
Read More »Can marijuana rescue coal country?
Published: Aug 11, 2017, 10:35 am • Updated: Aug 11, 2017, 11:12 am By Mark Lynn Ferguson, Special To The Washington Post Johnsie Gooslin spent Jan. 16, 2015, tending his babies – that’s what he called his marijuana plants. More …
Read More »West Virginia MMJ Bill Signed By Gov. Justice
Technically speaking, West Virginia is now a medical marijuana state.
Thanks to Gov.