Richard Lee, who relied on marijuana to ease his pain after a paralyzing work accident, only to blossom into “the Johnny Appleseed of pot” — the founder of a groundbreaking cannabis college and one of the country’s most influential legalization activists — died on July 27 in Houston. He was 62. His death, in a…
Yerba Buena, a marijuana dispensary, is seen in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo) A dozen marijuana dispensaries have filed a lawsuit against New York state after cannabis regulators admitted to a three-year measuring error that allowed pot shops to open dangerously close to schools, potentially compromising student safety protocols.The legal action, filed…
हैदराबाद में आयोजित तेलंगाना खेल सम्मेलन में मुख्यमंत्री रेवंत रेड्डी ने नई तेलंगाना खेल नीति की घोषणा की, जिसका उद्देश्य युवाओं को खेलों के माध्यम से सशक्त बनाना और नशे की लत से बचाना है. रेड्डी ने कहा कि खेल नीति के अभाव में युवा भटक रहे हैं. हमारी नई नीति तेलंगाना को वैश्विक मंच…
Middle-aged and older adults who sought hospital or emergency room care because of cannabis use were almost twice as likely to develop dementia over the next five years, compared with similar people in the general population, a large Canadian study reported on Monday. When compared with adults who sought care for other reasons, the risk…
Marc Fogel had traveled readily to and from Russia many times before his fateful last return to the country in August 2021. He had taught history for almost a decade, mostly to the children of diplomats, at the Anglo-American School in Moscow. But on entering Russia ahead of what he had decided would be his…
An email obtained by The Times shows that one committee leader, Representative Sharon Wylie, a supporter of the industry, shared a draft of the bill with a cannabis lobbyist. “Thank you for being open to the compromise approach,” she wrote. In an interview, Ms. Wylie said that “the jury’s still out” on the potential harms…
Barrie Miskin was newly pregnant when she noticed her appearance was changing. Dark patches bloomed on her skin like watercolor ink. A “thicket” of hairs sprouted on her upper lip and chin. The outside world was changing, too: In her neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, bright lights enveloped objects in a halo, blurring her vision. Co-workers…
For centuries in Morlaix, a city of cobblestones and creperies on the Breton coast of France, the best-known dealers were the ones who traded in linen during the Renaissance and built a number of unique half-timbered houses in the middle of town. The new dealers are another story. France, long a major European market for…