In policy, academic, and urban planning circles, know that they hear your grousing about traffic and roll their eyes. Yep, traffic is bad. It drives you nuts. It’s not good for the environment: All that idling! But in the US, those pragmatic wonks have been pitching the same solution for decades. You just won’t listen. […]
(CNN)A Democrat wants to legalize sex work. A Republican governor is trying to legalize sports betting in his state. The vast majority of Democrats running for President want to legalize marijuana. It’s a huge shift from just three years ago, when Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton took a more wait-and-see approach. In 2008, Barack Obama was […]
She said she hoped the that a lot of women are among the new recruits, to ensure a more balanced male/female divide. “In the long term, in order for us to have the best of the best, I would like it to be 50/50,” she told Lauren Laverne, who hosts the show. But she added […]
Now that recreational marijuana is legal in Canada and 10 US states (with potentially more on the way), businesses are finding increasingly innovative ways to encourage consumers to part with their cash in their search for a lawful high. Think of an edible product and there is probably some company somewhere flagging a cannabis-infused version of […]
Depression directly affects one in six adults over the course of a lifetime – and everything from pollution and artificial light to the bacteria that live in our gut could be (at least partly) to blame. Now, a new paper published in JAMA Psychiatry also links the mental illness to cannabis smoking as a teenager. Previous research has suggested that cannabis use moderately […]
New York (CNN Business)US states are increasingly legalizing marijuana, but the drug still isn’t mainstream enough to convince CBS to let a cannabis company run a Super Bowl ad in 2019. By going public with the news of a rejected ad, Acreage is following the lead of other companies that have had their ads turned […]
Image caption Tributes to Mr Fitzgerald were left at the scene The watchdog previously responded to suggestions Mr Fitzgerald had been shot in the back, saying there was “no indication” that was the case. The two 26-year-olds were initially arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the production of cannabis. One has been bailed and […]
more than 1,000 will be added to the books). In some states, minimum wages will go up, guns will be harder to obtain, plastic straws will get the boot and hunters will get to wear pink for a change. Tighter gun restrictions in several states ASSOCIATED PRESS Following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, last […]
London (CNN Business)1. Oil spike: US crude futures climbed 0.9% on Friday to above $53 per barrel, putting the commodity on track for its tenth consecutive daily gain. Oil is already on its the longest win streak since January 2010. There’s still a long way to go, however. Prices are still well below the $75 […]
After a long year fighting underage use of its products, Juul Labs has today struck a deal with Altria Group, the owners of Philip Morris USA and makers of Marlboro cigarettes. The deal values Juul at $38 billion, according to Bloomberg, and injects the company with a fresh $12.8 billion in exchange for a 35 […]