Pensions are, and have been, an important compensation component for public employees, including teachers, police, fire, and other municipal positions. However, limited funds and riskier investments ...

As policymakers aim to reduce opioid prescribing for the 14th year in a row, they are promoting a search for "non-addictive" pain treatment alternatives. Although medical marijuana is increasingly ...

Like many captive elephants, Nidia had chronic foot problems. Fissures had formed in the 55-year-old Asian elephant’s foot pads, and her toenails had cracked and become ingrown. Painful abscesses ...

From multiple sclerosis to post traumatic stress syndrome, medical marijuana is increasingly prescribed to treat a number of conditions. But an analysis of studies compiled by researchers and ...

Cannabis can be combined with conventional pharmaceuticals to improve those drugs’ results, veterinarians have found. And in some cases, given on its own, cannabis has outperformed existing drugs, ...

Since legal cannabis has gained momentum throughout the country, so have the reports that it’s the cure all for everything that ails you. The latest claim is that the plant can cure Covid-19. One of ...

Joseph Casias has battled sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor for more than a decade. His condition has required extensive treatment and chemotherapy, interferes with his ability to speak, and ...

Barstow, California, is located in San Bernadino County in Southern California’s Mojave Desert. The city is known for being home to the Fort Irwin National Training Center and the Marine Corps ...

Those who say migraines are just really bad headaches have never had one. A migraine — its introduction, its symptoms, its pain and its duration — is an altogether different beast. It comes on like ...

TOUCH AND GO: The female orgasm-cannabis connection is about more than sex and getting high. Credit: Alina Zavhorodnii.STOCK.ADOBE.COM Female orgasms and cannabis, a pair of topics unlikely to come up ...

I’ve been meaning to write about marijuana for a long time. Since my blog began in 2015, the most common question emailed to me by parents is how to convince their college student to stop marijuana ...