The Business of Cannabis

Older Adults Using Cannabis To Treat Common Health Conditions

University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that older adults use cannabis primarily for medical purposes to treat a variety of common health conditions, including pain, sleep disturbances and psychiatric conditions like anxiety and...

Opioid Deaths Fall When Cannabis Stores Rise, Analysis Suggests

The number of marijuana dispensaries in a county was negatively related to log-transformed opioid mortality rate, adjusted for age (β -0.17, 95% CI -0.23 to -0.11), reported Balázs Kovács, PhD, of Yale University School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut, and...

How Interstate Commerce Could Upend The Marijuana Industry

You can’t cross state lines with marijuana. Marijuana produced in one state – raw material or finished product, wholesale or retail – can’t be imported from, or exported to, another state for sale. That’s known as interstate commerce, and each state’s laws limit the...