Cannabis

Woman holding a cannabis bud in her hand
Life

Employees who use and abuse marijuana miss more work, new study shows

By
August 27, 2024
Close-up of hands pouring a martini out of a cocktail shaker
Health

More Americans than ever—especially young adults—say drinking alcohol is unhealthy

By
August 20, 2024
Larry Robinson
Success

Florida HBCU’s record $237 million donation from hemp mogul is worthless, investigator confirms

By James Pollard and The Associated Press
August 8, 2024
Ken Griffin
Politics

Ken Griffin pledges $12 million to defeat recreational pot legalization in Florida

By Felipe Marques, Michael Smith and Bloomberg
August 2, 2024
Simone Biles of Team USA practices on the balance beam during a gymnastics training session in the Bercy Arena ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Paris.
Life

Biles, Osaka, Richardson Olympic comebacks highlight issues facing people like them: ‘We’re still asking a lot of Black women athletes’

By Alanis Thames and The Associated Press
July 25, 2024
From 2017 through 2022, rates of health care encounters involving cannabis-related disorders increased among Medicare beneficiaries, according to a new study by the Food and Drug Administration.

Baby boomers are abusing marijuana at a higher rate as more Medicare beneficiaries turn to cannabis with ‘little other safe choices for pain or sleep’

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June 25, 2024
NYC Mayor Eric Adams
Retail

As NYC cracks down on illegal weed shops, 3,000 are going up in smoke. It’s no ‘urban doom loop,’ but could be a ray of hope for priced-out legal retailers

By
June 13, 2024
Geoff Rose, owner of Island Time in Vineyard Haven
Finance

Martha’s Vineyard is running out of pot because the state says transporting it across the ocean could be illegal. Now people are so angry they’re suing

By Nick Perry and The Associated Press
June 10, 2024
Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift
Health

Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift

By The Associated Press and Lindsay Whitehurst
May 16, 2024
Marijuana
Politics

Biden’s DEA to reclassify marijuana in historic shift that still doesn’t decriminalize it, sources say

By Zeke Miller, Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press
April 30, 2024
Supreme Court
Health

Trucker who says back pain CBD product got him fired for failing a drug test takes his case to Supreme Court

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press
April 29, 2024
Former MedMen CEO Adam Bierman at the 2018 opening of the company's Venice Beach retail location.
Finance

MedMen’s spectacular collapse is complete: Just six years after earning a whopping $3 billion valuation, the onetime legal cannabis darling has declared bankruptcy

By
April 29, 2024
cannabis plant
Health

Pot is illegal in North Carolina—except on Cherokee land where medical cannabis sales just started

By
April 21, 2024
Researchers at SUNY Upstate Medical University found that nonmedical cannabis use—regardless of how or how often it was consumed—lowered a person’s odds of subjective cognitive decline by 96%.
Mind

Recreational cannabis use may lower your risk of cognitive decline, study says

By
April 19, 2024
The Waldos
Lifestyle

‘It’s a phenomenon’: How 4/20 grew organically from a group of Northern California high schoolers into marijuana’s holiday

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press
April 19, 2024

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