USA. How Will Cannabis Legalization Affect Alcohol Consumption? Grab a cocktail after work or head to the cannabis lounge? Unlike Colorado or Washington, California's legalization allows local jurisdictions to license on-premises cannabis co...

Pernod Ricard boss: We're eyeing legal cannabis market 'closely' The boss of spirits giant Pernod Ricard has revealed that he and his rivals are studying the legalised cannabis market, as the drinks industry weighs the drug’s leisure ...

Public health advocates urge Global Fund to end Heineken partnership Concerned over a new partnership between the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and Heineken, three public health networks have recently sent an open joint letter to the ...

USA. Drug Industry Wages Opioid Fight Using an Anti-Addiction Ally As Minnesota lawmakers prepared to push a proposed tax on opioid sales in November, the pharmaceutical industry lobbyists who opposed the bill set up a meeting with its sponsors, ...

USA. OxyContin maker will stop promoting opioids to doctors The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin said it will stop marketing opioid drugs to doctors, a surprise reversal following lawsuits that blamed the company for helping trigger the...

USA. Milliardenmarkt Cannabis - Das große Geschäft mit dem Kiffen (Audio) Mit der Legalisierung des Konsums von Cannabis auch als reines Genussmittel in Kalifornien erwarten Marktexperten eine satte Umsatzsteigerung und einen Job-Boom ...