drug

Medical marijuana just got a major new ally in the bruising election battle: pop music icon Justin Bieber. Just in time to help swing pitched election fights for medical marijuana in Florida, and other states, Bieber called out prescription drug companies battling cannabis legalization Sunday...

Medical marijuana just got a major new ally in the bruising election battle: pop music icon Justin Bieber. Just in time to help swing pitched election fights for medical marijuana in Florida, and other states, Bieber called out prescription drug companies battling cannabis legalization Sunday...

The youngsters all have a rare and serious form of epilepsy and sufferer severe seizures up to 80 times a day. The fits mean sufferers are unable to stop themselves falling to the ground. Great Ormond Street Hospital in London is taking part in a global trial involving a total of 225...

It's been a week notable for developments in neurology medicine, with Celgene exercising an option to buy a potential multiple sclerosis drug, as GW Pharma prepares a filing for a phase 3 epilepsy drug derived from the cannabis plant. Celgene has exercised a $20 million option to obtain ex-US...

It's been a week notable for developments in neurology medicine, with Celgene exercising an option to buy a potential multiple sclerosis drug, as GW Pharma prepares a filing for a phase 3 epilepsy drug derived from the cannabis plant. Celgene has exercised a $20 million option to obtain ex-US...

British biotech company GW Pharmaceuticals announced positive results on its latest Phase 3 clinical trial for its drug Epidiolex. The drug is cannabidiol-based and is used to treat children with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a rare form of childhood epilepsy. The results from the test were very...

British biotech company GW Pharmaceuticals announced positive results on its latest Phase 3 clinical trial for its drug Epidiolex. The drug is cannabidiol-based and is used to treat children with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a rare form of childhood epilepsy. The results from the test were very...

A drug conviction can cause a permanent resident to lose his or her immigration status and leave the country. That is why the Immigrant Legal Resource Center is supporting Proposition 64, known as the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, or AUMA. ILRC released a report Thursday, available through...

The past two weeks of polling have provided Democrats with many excuses to seek out chemical cures for un-mellow moods. But of all the buzz-harshing polls to surface between Hillary's fainting spell and Trump's figurative face-plant at Monday's debate, few were as unnerving as CNN/ORC's survey...

Wilkes-Barre - Area residents hoping to see marijuana legalized - either for medical purposes or recreational use - will gather in Kirby Park on Saturday. The Keystone Cannabis Coalition and the Northeastern Pennsylvanian Cannabis Network will host the third annual "Wilkes-Barre Cannabis...

Wilkes-Barre - Area residents hoping to see marijuana legalized - either for medical purposes or recreational use - will gather in Kirby Park on Saturday. The Keystone Cannabis Coalition and the Northeastern Pennsylvanian Cannabis Network will host the third annual "Wilkes-Barre Cannabis...

Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the U.S. resulting in at least 584,881 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recent animal studies show that marijuana extracts can help kill certain cancer cells and even reduce the size of some of them. But...

Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the U.S. resulting in at least 584,881 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recent animal studies show that marijuana extracts can help kill certain cancer cells and even reduce the size of some of them. But...

An experimental cannabis-derived drug has successfully treated children with severe epilepsy in a third late-stage clinical trial, sending shares in Britain's GW Pharmaceuticals to a record high on Monday. GW, which was founded in 1998 to capitalize on the medical benefits of cannabis, said...

An experimental cannabis-derived drug has successfully treated children with severe epilepsy in a third late-stage clinical trial, sending shares in Britain's GW Pharmaceuticals to a record high on Monday. GW, which was founded in 1998 to capitalize on the medical benefits of cannabis, said...

Those of us involved in the marijuana legalization movement have long assumed that those companies that produce and sell competing products - especially alcohol and tobacco - were working behind the scenes to try to maintain marijuana prohibition and to protect their duopoly for legal...

In early August the Drug Enforcement Administration declined to reclassify marijuana under the federal Controlled Substances Act. The drug is currently listed on Schedule I, meaning that it is viewed as having "no currently accepted medical use in treatment" and is therefore technically banned...

If you're picturing yourself in college taking bong hits, sinking into the sofa and missing deadlines, you're probably wondering why highly competitive pro athletes would use cannabis. Times have changed. Alongside protein powders and work out supplements, some athletes and their trainers are...

Drug policy watchers learned earlier this month that the latest substance to earn Schedule I status is the obscure plant ​called kratom. So what's Schedule I? By the letter of the law, Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act contains "drugs, substances, or chemicals" that meet the...

The use of marijuana for medical purposes is now legal in 25 states and, as of this writing, two additional states (Arkansas and Florida) have pending legislation or ballot measures to legalize medical marijuana.1 Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Colorado and the District of Columbia have also...