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The White House says its stance on prior pot use is much more permissive than past administrations, including those of former Presidents Trump and Obama.

A Long Island doctor is facing murder charges after five patients allegedly died between 2016 and 2018 due to prescriptions he wrote. George Blatti, 75, was arraigned Thursday on five counts of murder in the second degree and 11 counts of reckless endangerment in the first degree. Blatti was remanded and is due back in court on March 30. If…

Many states have legalized marijuana to some degree. A trio of senators wants to repeal the federal cannabis prohibition and provide relief for pot convictions.

Rite Aid has given more than 5,000 Covid vaccations so far and it’s seen the rollout’s challenges firsthand, its CEO said.

Every ballot measure involving the decriminalization or legalization of marijuana passed in 2020. Marijuana may now be one of the truly bipartisan issues in the U.S.

The House passed the MORE Act, which would decriminalize cannabis and marks the first time that Congress has ever voted on the issue.

“Really the biggest variable right now is that we’re going to have limited supply for the remainder of this year certainly,” the former FDA chief told CNBC.

Tech investor Peter Thiel has led a $125 million funding round into a start-up aiming to make psychedelic drugs to treat mental health disorders.

Attorney General William Barr and Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero said the U.S. would drop the charges and allow Mexico to investigate and determine if Salvatore Cienfuegos Zepeda should be tried in that country.

Accidental overdose deaths are on the rise through the first six months of the year and are expected to outpace last year’s deaths, according to data from the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.   “Recovery isn’t this elusive, esoteric concept,” Kevin Shuler, a recovery coach with Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR), said. “It’s tangible, attainable and real and...

Earlier this week, Naugatuck Police say a 10- and 13-year-old got sick after eating edible marijuana they bought after connecting with dealers on Snapchat. Two people were arrested. Tuesday, NBC Connecticut spoke to a mom off-camera who said it was her child who was hospitalized. She said even as involved as she is with her kids’ lives this can happen…

Police said two children in Naugatuck who ended up in the hospital after ingesting edible marijuana got it through social media.

Ninety-one people in the U.S. die every day from opioid-related overdoses, but there’s a tool that can reverse the effects of an overdose that more and more law enforcement agencies and paramedics are now carrying with them as part of their standing operating protocol. It’s called Narcan, and here is what you need to know about what it is, how...

President Donald Trump said Friday his four executive orders would lower drug prices to match foreign prices.

Police in Milan’s airport stopped a suspicious shipment of coffee beans from Colombia. Upon further investigation, they found 500 beans filled with cocaine.

Doctors say a Brazilian man who was infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body

The family of a Virginia man who has been held in Spain for the last year on drug trafficking charges says he was an unwitting courier for a criminal syndicate

Gilead Sciences will begin human trials for an inhaled version of its antiviral drug remdesivir in August, the biotech company said Monday. Remdesivir, which was granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration to treat patients hospitalized with Covid-19, is administered intravenously. The company told investors in April that it was looking to develop easier-to-administer versions of the drug,...

Researchers in England say they have the first evidence that a drug can improve survival from COVID-19

President Donald Trump blames increased testing for a spike in COVID-19 cases in 22 states. Medical experts refute his claim.