Drugs

Michigan still needs to figure out licensing and other regulations.

Rates of expectant mothers taking amphetamines doubled.

The agency said one user was hospitalized and required surgery after taking Rhino.

The Brooklyn, New York, courthouse, where Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman stands trial, will be on lockdown throughout the four-week trial of the infamous drug cartel leader.

“We don’t want more deaths," said a Mexican senator. "It will be a major contribution to bringing peace to our beloved country.”

Michigan Governor-elect Gretchen Whitmer said she would begin "taking some action" on the issue early next year.

“Legalization is happening at a much more rapid pace than expected, even compared to, say, 12 months ago,” C21 CEO Robert Cheney said.

Kentucky’s Graves County Sheriff Dewayne Redmon is facing trial after allegedly stealing opioids.

“Seeing our neighbors making progress should put much more pressure on us to get it right and ditch our outdated federal marijuana policy," Democrat Congressman Earl Blumenauer from Oregon told Newsweek.

“The effects caused by marijuana do not justify an absolute prohibition on its consumption,” the court ruled.

Licensing issues and postal strikes have presented obstacles for the country's fledgling cannabis industry.

Perrottetinene is believed to light up the same parts of the brain as the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

South Korean citizens are subject to the country’s strict drug laws even when abroad.

Distributing clean needles and offering HIV tests may sound like a way to encourage drug abuse. But "harm reduction" has been shown to reduce the number of overdoses and the spread of disease.

The supply chain has gone to pot.

"There is currently no educational nor regulatory scheme that will guarantee that this drug will be used only as described in the label," one concerned board member said.

"As just the second country and the first G7 nation to end marijuana prohibition, Canada has positioned itself as a global leader for cannabis business and development."

Psilocybin is increasingly being recognized by scientists as potentially effective treatments for a number of psychological disorders, such as addiction and depression.

Despite a string of failed clinical trials for new dementia drugs, there are reasons to remain optimistic.

Human rights groups say at least 12,000 people have been killed since Duterte took office in 2016.

The research was “the first” to directly target and "dramatically" reduce numbers of dementia-causing particles.

Opiate overdoses claim more than 115 lives a day in the U.S.

In Guadalajara, the morgue was so full that a trailer of 157 bodies was parked at a warehouse on the outskirts of the city,

The U.S. experience suggests most stigmas linked to using weed are not supported by scientific evidence.

The cancer that killed the senator is notoriously difficult to treat.

Police said vans containing cannabis would be targets for robbery.

Crowdfunding pages have been used to raise millions of dollars for cancer treatments with no scientific basis.

The U.S. was among 23 countries to recall valsartan after some products were contaminated with a compound linked to cancer.

Findings open an exciting new avenue of research that could lead to even more effective immunotherapy treatments.

Some people with HIV have special antibodies which could provide clues for protecting against the virus.