cannabis

Personal Health

Can Cannabis Help Patients In Pain Avoid Opioids?

Steph Whiteside

Since February, patients in Illinois have been able to swap their opioid prescriptions for marijuana. And many are doing just that.They’re part of a…
Addiction and Drug Use

An Opioid Prescription In Illinois Could Be A Ticket For Medical Marijuana

Christine Herman

Across the country, states desperate to prevent opioid addiction are increasingly looking to medical cannabis as a solution. Lawmakers in several states,…
Addiction and Drug Use

When Cancer Patients Ask About Weed, Many Doctors Say Go For It

Christine Herman

Thirty U.S. states have enacted medical cannabis laws, and all but one of them include cancer in the list of conditions allowed. Such laws give cancer…
Trends & Times

How Marijuana Highjacks Your Brain To Give You The Munchies

Angus Chen

Where there's pot, there's often an insatiable hunger. Now researchers have a big clue why: Cannabinoids, the drug in marijuana, appear to flip a neural circuit that normally tells us we're full.

Sick Season 2

Incarcerated people are some of the sickest people in our country. Many have chronic conditions such as diabetes or lung disease. And they’re far more likely to suffer from mental illness and addiction. On Season 2 of Sick, listen to stories of what goes wrong in corrections facilities — places meant to keep people healthy, but built to punish them.

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