With the nation’s opioid crisis raging, rates of cocaine and methamphetamine abuse soaring and recreational marijuana use becoming legal in nine states and the District of Columbia, the concern about clean drug tests, too, has increased.
As the cannabis industry grows, generating an estimated $10 billion in annual sales, states are increasingly approving medical marijuana programs and passing adult-use laws. But for marketing agencies, marijuana dispensaries and cannabis brands, advertising the pot brings its own hurdles.
The U.S. legal cannabis industry is expected to reach $75 billion in sales by 2030, according to research firm Cowen & Co. That’s almost as large as the North American carbonated soft drink market in 2017.
“These findings further strengthen arguments in favor of considering medical applications of cannabis as one tool in the policy arsenal that can be used to diminish the harm of prescription opioids,” the authors of one report concluded.
CBD is cannabis that won’t get you high. So why are so many people using it? “Some people do want the high, of course,” Titus says. “But others are looking for the health and wellness benefits.”
Last week Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo encouraging federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for certain drug trafficking offenses. Here’s how much marijuana you’d need to be eligible for the death penalty under federal law.
Trump said he would nominate Ronny Jackson, 50, an active-duty rear admiral in the Navy who has served for the past three administrations as a White House physician.
Some vendors believe they have found a workaround to the law, saying that they are only selling trinkets and that the cannabis is included. Police call it illegal drug dealing.
As you would expect, the DEA museum attributes many social ills to drug use, but it’s most convincing when making the case that drugs cause crimes of the fashion variety.
Wallace Godwin, 69, of Virginia Beach, was arrested Friday and charged in Norfolk federal court; he faces up to 10 years in prison.
A medical marijuana dispensary in western Maryland has banned at least four customers because they posted complaints online about pricing or other issues, sparking concern from advocates and potentially violating state rules for the emerging industry.
Novartis AG is partnering with a Canadian cannabis company backed by billionaire Peter Thiel to get in on the medical marijuana business.
“The free market is going to drive people out of those hills. They won’t be able to make money there anymore.”
Still no federal support for research into whether medical marijuana could help veterans suffering from PTSD, though
A report found that more than half of those wrongly charged after a false positive actually pleaded guilty, an indication of how the threat of serious jail time can persuade innocent people to falsely confess.
After an about-face on marijuana, Colombia is looking to exchange gun-toting traffickers for corporate backers to become world leaders in legal cannabis.
Some critics were very un-Dude back in 1998.
In his Minnesota community, Castile was known as “Mr. Phil,” a kind man who supervised the food program in an elementary school cafeteria and knew the children by name.
In 2016, the rate of pedestrian fatalities per 100,000 people was the highest since 1998, a new report by the Governors Highway Safety Association finds.
For 16 years, every elementary school student in this small town in Massachusetts has learned about drugs from Officer Kenneth Thaxter. But this year, his lesson needed to change, and he was about to find out whether the students knew why.
The Florida congressman is 13 months and 11 days into his first term. He’s still on step one of Operation: Disrupt Congress.
As the opioid crisis has mushroomed into a national epidemic, the number of truck and bus drivers, commercial pilots, railroad operators and pipeline workers who failed federal drug tests has jumped by 77 percent since 2006, federal data shows.
Maryland Del. Dan Morhaim will not seek another term in the General Assembly, ending a 24-year run in which he helped launch the state’s medical marijuana program.
Some doctors who had signed up for medical marijuana programs promptly backed out when Sessions reversed the hands-off policy of the Obama era.
As marijuana becomes legal in more states, some are allowing people to ask to have their old marijuana convictions expunged or reduced.
A bill that would allow physicians to recommend CBD for patients suffering from a variety of serious diseases seems headed toward passage.
With the advancement of big data, quality testing and cultivation methods, more career opportunities are becoming available in the marijuana industry.
The most common reason for gynecomastia — enlarged breasts — among 18-to-35-year-old men is frequent use of pot, according to a cosmetic surgeon who specializes in treating the condition
Statistics show what appears to be a broad, long-term decoupling of homicide rates and the illegal drug trade in many U.S. cities.
Sessions is making the case Trump administration anti-crime policies are working, even though the trend already was apparent when he repeatedly warned that crime was out of control.
Officials from GW Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed Epidiolex announced promising results from a randomized study on 171 patients.
A 24-year-old former Trump campaign worker who rose rapidly to a senior post in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy will step down by the end of the month.
A new directive from the Veterans Health Administration urges vets and their physicians to open up on the subject of medical marijuana, but whether vets will do so remains to be seen.
The résumé of Taylor Weyeneth, a rising star in the Trump administration’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, is raising eyebrows in Washington, D.C.
A 9-year-old student in New Mexico gave fellow students gummies – only to find out they contained medical marijuana.
Two new medical marijuana entrepreneurs are concerned about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recent rescinding of the Cole Memo.
Discrimination in Maryland’s broader business climate justifies giving minority and women-owned businesses preferences for entering the medical marijuana market, according to a report released Wednesday.
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will not conduct research into whether medical marijuana could help veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain.
At 23, Taylor Weyeneth, was a political appointee and rising star at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the White House office responsible for coordinating the federal government’s multibillion dollar anti-drug initiatives.
Matriarch Dr. Janice Knox led the family’s move into medical marijuana in 2012, when she retired from a decades-long career in anesthesiology.
Legalizing marijuana nationwide would create at least $132 billion in tax revenue and more than a million new jobs across the United States in the next decade, according to a new study.
As a former senator from the South known for trumpeting the sovereignty of state power over federal overreach, Sessions’ defense of overturning practices that had been initiated by state ballots seems contradictory, even hypocritical.
“One of the reasons why, I hate to say it, it’s that the African Americans, they were basically users and they basically responded the worst off those drugs just because their character makeup, their genetics and that.”
Opinion: It is no longer tenable for Session to remain atop the Justice Department, as he cannot credibly lead the FBI, and has repeatedly lied to the Senate.
The U.S. is not gearing up for a large-scale prosecution of legal marijuana users, according to initial indications from the dozen or so U.S. attorneys who are now authorized make that call.
Jeff Sessions may get what he wants for now. But in the end he probably did a great service to the legalization movement.
Democrats from likely to dark horse candidates for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination denounced Sessions’ move to reduce state marijuana protections.
With the proposed crackdown on marijuana, the Trump administration created huge political headaches for scores of Republicans who were already facing a tough environment in 2018.
Rolling back marijuana policy is likely to cause political headaches for the Trump administration given widespread public support, the economic clout of the marijuana industry and the supporters legal marijuana businesses have won over in Congress.
In Maryland, a community bank is working with the state’s newly launched medical marijuana industry, offering a way to avoid the security concerns of cash.
