(CNN)What does a child’s brain, which repaired itself after a full third of the right hemisphere was surgically removed, teach us about all brains? The operation when he was 6 years 10 months old eliminated UD’s entire occipital lobe, home of the brain’s vision processing center, and most of his temporal lobe, where both visual […]
Call it the California Marijuanapocalypse of 2018. As of January 1, recreation cannabis has been legal in the state. A black market still runs underneath it all (Northern California alone supplies perhaps 75 percent of all marijuana across the United States), but cultivators and distributors are going legit, bringing themselves up to the rigorous testing […]
In a news release today, the FDA announced its approval of a marijuana-derived drug called Epidiolex for the treatment of seizures in a subset of patients suffering from severe epilepsy. Epidiolex contains CBD, a cannabis chemical compound skyrocketing in popularity and driving what is estimated to have doubled into a $200 million market in 2018. CBD is […]
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Thanks to the development of medical marijuana programs and the decriminalization and legalization of recreational cannabis in multiple states, the THC-infused world of eats has evolved far beyond brownies, cookies and admittedly impressive dispensary snacks and moved into the culinary space. When Martha Stewart gets in on the action, you know it’s gone mainstream. Cat Cora, […]
I sort of love Just Capital, the nonprofit organization created by Paul Tudor Jones II and Deepak Chopra (!), and championed by Alessandra Stanley at the New York Times, whose aim is to rank public companies on their “justness” (!), and which is now teaming up with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (!) to create an exchange-traded fund (!) […]
Washington (CNN)Former Republican House Speaker John Boehner lamented Thursday that the GOP he knew is no more, and in its place is the “Trump Party.” “But if you can peel away the noise, and the tweets and all that, which is virtually impossible to do, but if you peel all this away, from a Republican […]
Judge Ross said Moinul Islam, of Wykeham Crescent, who was jailed for 15 years and nine months, had a child “completely at his mercy”. In his summing up he said sexual abuse had become “the norm” for the men. The NSPCC said the victims, aged between 13 and 15, “would not be silenced” despite a […]
TIRANA, Albania – The office of Albania’s top prosecutor says a former interior minister has been put under house arrest while being investigated for alleged involvement in a drug trafficking ring. Prosecutors had asked for Saimir Tahiri to be kept in custody, but Denion Ndrenika, spokesman for the Prosecutor General’s Office, said Saturday that a […]
Lerer Hippeau has raised two new funds — $122 million for a sixth fund devoted to seed stage investments, as well as $60 million for a “Select Fund” focused on later-stage deals. Managing Partner Eric Hippeau said both funds will be used to continue the firm’s existing strategy: “We continue to be seed-first investors and […]