The Business of Cannabis

Study: College Students Drank Less During Pandemic But Used Cannabis, Psychedelics At Record Highs

Sep 15, 2021 | National

A recent study published by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) found that half of United States college students ages 19-60 admitted to using weed in 2020. While that may not exactly seem like a revelatory, uh, revelation, the “Monitoring the...

Hemp Batteries Eight Times More Powerful Than Lithium, Scientists Discover

Sep 8, 2021 | Feature, National

Is there anything hemp can’t do? A year after hemp became legal to grow in the United States, we’ve seen its power to make better clothing, better buildings and better medicine. Now, there’s something else hemp appears to be better at – making...

Federal Drug Official Notes Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization Hasn’t Led To Increase In Adolescent Use

Sep 8, 2021 | National

The enactment of statewide laws regulating the adult-use cannabis market has not led to an increase in the percentage of young people experimenting with the plant, according to comments made recently by Nora Volkow, Director of the US National Institute...

Review: Cannabinoids Are an “Adequate Potential Treatment Option” for Fibromyalgia Patients

Sep 8, 2021 | National

Human trials indicate that the use of either whole-plant cannabis or cannabinoids can improve various symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) and that they possess an adequate safety profile for use in treatment, according to the findings of a literature...

Apple’s New Cannabis App Rules Benefit Cannabis Businesses – Google Remains Holdout

Sep 8, 2021 | National

Cannabis delivery and technology companies say that Apple’s recent decision to let iPhone apps process marijuana transactions is already bringing benefits after these businesses launched new apps for Apple’s iOS smartphone operating system. After the change to...

Cannabis Industry Booming, Black Americans Find Price Of Entry Steep

Sep 8, 2021 | National

Cannabis is a booming industry and the Covid-19 pandemic has, if anything, helped. The legal cannabis industry now accounts for 321,000 full-time jobs across the 37 states with legal medical or adult use markets, according to the cannabis information site Leafly’s...