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 »Trump to lift legal threat to states that permit marijuana use
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will lift his administration’s plans for a possible crackdown on states that have legalized marijuana after talks with a Colorado senator, the White House said on Friday, an action that undercuts U.S. Attorney General …
Read More »Legal marijuana tied to drop in opioid prescriptions
(Reuters Health) – Opioid prescriptions may decline when states legalize marijuana, two U.S. studies suggest. FILE PHOTO: Marijuana is seen for sale at Harborside, one of California’s largest and oldest dispensaries of medical marijuana, on the first day of legalized …
Read More »In anti-drug Sweden, investors take shine to cannabis stocks
STOCKHOLM(Reuters) – Growing numbers of Swedish investors are getting a buzz from trading in listed marijuana stocks even though the country has some of Europe’s most restrictive drug laws. FILE PHOTO: A worker collects cuttings from a marijuana plant at …
Read More »From Wall Street to weed: How the financial crisis lit up the pot industry
NEW YORK (Reuters) – As a senior vice president at Wachovia and then Morgan Stanley during the dark months of the 2008 and 2009 financial crisis, Derek Peterson watched as colleagues lost their jobs and life savings and wondered if …
Read More »Canada prepares for legal pot with new license class, strict labels
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s health regulator on Monday set out thresholds for a new class of cannabis cultivation and processing licenses, and outlined strict requirements for the packaging and labeling of recreational marijuana ahead of its legalization this year. Parliamentary …
Read More »Green Crack, Blue Dream, Gorilla Glue: The problem of pricing pot
NEW YORK (Reuters) – In 2014, as Jonathan Rubin and Ian Laird considered investing in the booming U.S. cannabis industry, they hit a problem: How to value pot starts-ups with little verified data on the price of the weed itself? …
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