Kanada. Legal Pot Takes a Bite out of Beer Consumption in Canada Volume decline accelerated in 2019, down 3% through November  Newly legal pot products will perpetuate trend, Cowen says  Smoke more, drink less. That appeared to be th...

USA. OxyContin Maker Purdue Is 'Pharma Co X' in U.S. Opioid Kickback Probe -Sources NEW YORK (Reuters) - OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is the unnamed company that surfaced in criminal charging documents filed earlier this week in a probe of il...

USA. Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker Practice Fusion ensured that addictive drugs were on the menu  - ‘It’s evil. There’s really no other word for it,’ doctor says. (bloomberg.com, USA. 29....

USA. Erstmals früherer Chef von Opioid-Hersteller in den USA zu Haftstrafe verurteilt New York – Inmitten der Opioid-Krise mit zehntausenden Toten ist in den USA erstmals der Ex-Chef eines Schmerzmittel-Herstellers zu einer mehrjährigen Haftstraf...

The Cannabis Industry’s Dirty Energy Secret Your average marijuana plant is a rather unimposing, forest green weed that blends well with nature. The dirty truth, however, is that the business of growing cannabis is anything but green. In fact, th...

USA. Ex-Chef von Opioid-Hersteller muss ins Gefängnis  Der Gründer des US-Pharmakonzerns Insys hat laut einem Urteil Ärzte bestochen, damit diese Patienten ein süchtig machendes Opioid-Spray verschreiben. Nun muss John Kapoor in Haft. (Spieg...