Curious if medical marijuana will work for you? You could ask your doctor, but you may be better off with Wikipedia—or, if you’re a faithful reader of these pages, your may be better served if your ...

Marijuana is not the harmless drug many of its advocates would have you believe, as we have pointed out. Fortunately, a growing number of lawmakers, including those who supported legalization in the ...

It's 2021 and more U.S. women are using—or at least admitting to using—marijuana while pregnant. In 2016, around 7 percent of pregnant women in a national survey said they used marijuana in the past ...

For those of us in the public policy world, an interesting dynamic played out on the floor of the United States Senate last year. Fast forward about a decade: a bill codifying same-sex marriage sailed ...

Now is not the time to change our national health mantra from "follow the science" to "follow the polls." But that appears to be the motivation behind the August 29 announcement by the Department of ...

When California voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2016, some hailed it as a progressive policy that would generate windfall tax revenues while others warned of a public health disaster. So ...

This newsletter has argued that there needs to be more science on marijuana. Well, is there a consensus yet about the benefits and harms of marijuana yet? According to an editorial published recently ...

Of weed’s many effects on the body, marijuana’s impact on sperm is perhaps the least obvious — and the most elusive. The research on weed and sperm is contradictory at best. Some studies hint it could ...

As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some government officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the country’s biggest public health successes : curbing ...

KALAMAZOO -- If it were just about the science -- and not the politics -- states would allow marijuana for medical purposes, says a leading researcher who was the first to report the drug's ...

Over the last decade, cannabis has had a moment. Thirty-six states and Washington D.C. have legalized it for medical use. (Fifteen states, plus D.C., have also legalized weed recreationally.) ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Marijuana has been shown to help ease pain and a few other health problems, yet two-thirds of U.S. states — including Pennsylvania — have decided pot should be legal to treat many other ...