Cannabis Beverage Makers Have Alcohol Market in Their Sights August 2, 2022 AggregatedNews Cannabis Beverages 0 Comments Alcohol has long been the dominant social lubricant — but the growing cannabis industry wants to offer a replacement. The market for beverages made with THC, marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient, is growing. Smaller players are looking to do more than just get people high… Read More→
Is Driving High as Dangerous as Driving Drunk? April 13, 2022 AggregatedNews News & Insights 1 Comment There’s limited data on how marijuana impacts driving performance, but experts urge caution before getting behind the wheel. Q: I know all about the dangers of driving while drunk. But is driving while high on marijuana as dangerous? Any form… Read More→
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Despite vaping crisis, Americans view e-cigarettes as far more dangerous than marijuana November 5, 2019 AggregatedNews Vaping Crisis 0 Comments Americans now think marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol, tobacco or e-cigarettes, according to new polling results from POLITICO and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health released Monday. Just 1 in 5 Americans believe marijuana is very harmful to people… Read More→
A Toxicologist’s Look at Cannabis vs. Alcohol: Why the US Government is Focusing on the Wrong Recreational Drug December 12, 2018 Dr. Dorothy Colagiovanni Science and Technology 0 Comments Sometimes we observe a car wreck and rubber neck our way until it is out of our sight. I had that feeling during the hearings for Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh. As I listened to the testimony, it surfaced repeatedly that… Read More→
Constellation Brands Boosts Stake In Canopy Growth With $3.8 Billion Investment August 20, 2018 AggregatedNews Cannabis Investments 0 Comments Constellation Brands is spending C$5 billion ($3.8 billion) to boost its stake in Canadian cannabis grower Canopy Growth Corp., betting legalization of the drug will continue to gain traction in the U.S. and around the world. Constellation, the brewer of… Read More→
Beer Makers Wanting To Cash In On Legal Marijuana Are Ditching Alcohol August 6, 2018 AggregatedNews On the Move 0 Comments Once upon a time, back when I was in my early twenties, there was this cool, old, homeless guy who hung out in front of the local liquor store almost daily. He’d sit out there as long as it took… Read More→
Self-Regulation in the Cannabis Industry December 12, 2016 Leslie Bocskor News & Insights, Opinions 3 Comments By Leslie Bocskor In 1932, John D. Rockefeller, once a staunch Prohibitionist, remarked that "drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition;… Read More→
Obama Says Marijuana Should Be Treated Like Alcohol and Tobacco December 1, 2016 AggregatedNews Industry People, Policy & Legal 0 Comments In an “exit interview” with Rolling Stone magazine, President Obama said that marijuana use should be treated as a public-health issue similar to tobacco or alcohol and called the current patchwork of state and federal laws regarding the drug “untenable.”… Read More→