Marijuana poisonings rose sharply among people 65 years of age and older, after Canada legalized the drug according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. In the study, 2,322 ED visits in ...

A cannabis establishment in Arizona is voluntarily recalling products due to possible contamination with Aspergillus. The Alaska House of Representatives voted in favor of a measure to create the ...

Legalizing cannabis for both medical and recreational use may lead to a decline in daily opioid use among people who inject ...

While overdoses have continued to drop statewide, cities like Schenectady and Albany are seeing more related to synthetic cannabis, also known as K2 or spice.

The legalization of cannabis and the popularity of its edible versions is having an unexpected effect: More seniors landing in emergency departments with overdoses. A new Canadian study found ...

The claim that medical marijuana laws are linked to lower rates of fatal opioid overdoses may be wrong, according to a study published in PNAS. A 2014 study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found ...

Could you get TOO high from smoking weed? Is it possible to overdose on cannabis? Check out today's trippy new video that ...

Israeli med-tech startup Syqe Medical developed a medical marijuana inhaler to address dosing issues. The SyqeAir inhaler is said to provide fast relief without smoking, reduce side effects and enable ...

The U.S. faces a devastating overdose epidemic, driven initially by pain pills and subsequently by heroin and the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Farmers in the U.S. have grown cannabis since the 1600s — but policymakers are still figuring out how to regulate two famous types of Cannabis sativa. A historian calls the plant "incredibly cryptic." ...

Food asphyxiation is in the news today – and is WAY more dangerous than marijuana. Food asphyxiation is in the news again. In the US alone, approximately 5,000 – 5,500 people die from choking on food ...