The coronavirus pandemic, despite everyone’s best efforts, has brought out the worst in some people. Coping with the loss of jobs, family, friends and life’s day-to-day activities has spurred an increase in unhealthy outcomes across demographics, including alcohol consumption, illicit drug use and mental health emergencies. Of the substances that many Americans (and Canadians) turned to mitigate the impact…
It’s no secret that the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting shutdowns of non-essential services last year caused upheaval in nearly every business sector in the U.S. and across the globe. The fitness industry was no exception, with gyms in 48 states shuttered by early April 2020. The ensuing year saw a massive increase in the number of Americans…
Prison inmates can’t legally possess cannabis under California’s law allowing recreational pot, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in overturning a lower court that found prisoners could have the drug as long as they didn’t consume it. The justices said the 2019 appellate court ruling allowing prisoners to have up to 1 ounce (28.5 grams)…
Cannabis is decriminalized in New Orleans as of this Thursday, when City leaders approved measures to end penalties for people found with small amounts of the drug. Louisiana now joins 27 U.S. states that have decriminalized recreational cannabis. The City Council passed several agenda items to end the penalties and also to pardon about 10,000…
Data from a new Canadian-based study suggests that certain cannabis strains can reduce “cytokine storm” – a type of inflammatory distress that proceeds COVID-19-induced acute respiratory distress. The research was conducted by Pathway Research Inc, the University of Calgary, and the University of Lethbridge, involving a “well-established full-thickness human 3D skin artificial EpiDermFTTM tissue…