Health

Colorado pot report: More adults using drug, but not kids

Colorado kids are not smoking more pot since the drug became legal—but their older siblings and parents certainly are, according to a long-awaited report giving the most comprehensive data yet on the effects of the state's ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Brazil launches anti-Zika campaign in schools

Brazil's president, government ministers, state governors, health agents and members of the armed forces Friday visited schools throughout the country to involve students in the nationwide campaign to eradicate the Aedes ...

Addiction

Smoke weed in college and your grades may go to pot

(HealthDay)—College students who smoke marijuana appear more likely than their peers to skip classes—which eventually leads to poorer grades and later graduation, a recent study suggests.

Health

Alaska regulators are first to OK marijuana use at pot shops

The board tasked with writing rules for Alaska's recreational marijuana industry voted Friday to allow for people to use pot at certain stores that will sell it, a first among the four states that have legalized the drug.

Health

Pro-marijuana 'tweets' are sky-high on Twitter

Analyzing every marijuana-related Twitter message sent during a one-month period in early 2014, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that the "Twitterverse" is a pot-friendly place. ...

Health

Congressional deal upends pot legalization in DC

Elected officials and drug-policy advocates hoped to make the nation's capital the first place on the East Coast with legal pot. They wanted to use the District of Columbia as further encouragement for states to make their ...

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