As demand grows fast for products containing CBD, safety concerns, too, are rising quickly. Today shoppers can find cannabidiol, or CBD, one of a class of compounds known as cannabinoids with promising medicinal applications,...
More women are using different forms and combinations of cannabis for health reasons, according to recent surveys. One survey, by BDS Analytics, in Boulder, Colorado, reveals that women feel like they can take control...
A new class of medicines is entering the marketplace. The new medicines not only are more effective than conventional drugs for treating some kinds of illnesses. The new products, based on a compound called...
After Americans elected Donald Trump to the United States’ presidency in 2016, Mexicans, it seems, are going to elect their own nationalist president in 2018. Voters in many different countries increasingly are embracing politicians...
It was Wednesday, May 2. I had arrived in New York City, or more precisely lower Manhattan, the night before. I got up on Wednesday morning and ate a big breakfast (eggs, sausage, yogurt,...
It is Tuesday, May 1, a week after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my niece, and I are going by city bus from Tenleytown to Georgetown and the...
It is Saturday, April 28, exactly 4 days after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my 14-year old niece, and I are traveling, by car, on a short trip...
It is Friday, April 27, several days after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my 14-year old niece, and I are going to the National Portrait Gallery in downtown...
In the United States, as the opioid epidemic rages on, killing more than 140 people every day, many critics, who have long complained of an inadequate response to the epidemic by the federal government,...
China / India / Japan / Politics & Economics
A new alliance is forming in Asia to offer an alternative to the massive infrastructure development initiative, known as One Belt, One Road, pushed by China’s leader, Xi Jinping, for the past two years....
