According to the American Diabetes Association, 30.3 million Americans, or 9.4% of the population, had diabetes in 2015. By 2017, findings from the Center for Disease Control reported that more than 100 million Americans had diabetes or pre-diabetes. This growth rate was considered steady by the CDC and was considered a health care burden. As of 2015, diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. What's worse, some don't even know they have the disease. “Although these findings...

After months of will-they-won’t-they activity, both New Jersey and New York failed to deliver on legalizing adult-use cannabis. What once seemed to be foregone conclusions to many turned out to be two hard doses of reality that leaves citizens and lawmakers with a foul taste in their mouths. Instead of adult-use legalization, both have since pivoted to focus on expanding other cannabis parameters. In New York, lawmakers flipped focus to expanding the state’s partial decriminalization law...

New York City’s cannabis networking community is thriving for a state yet to legalize adult-use cannabis. One of the more standout events is REVEL’s quarterly get-together and info session. The eighth installment of the series – presented by founders Lulu Tsui, Jacobi Holland and select cannabis sponsors – was held at Downtown Manhattan’s SubCulture space, offering a cozy venue for over a hundred attendees to meet and then focus on the stage. This season’s theme focused on cannabis and...

Cigarette smoking continues to affect millions each year. Despite smoking declining from 20.9% in 2005 to 14% in 2014, an estimated 34.3 million adults in America still smoke tobacco, according to the Center for Disease Control. 16 million live with a disease derived from smoking. In the U.S., smoking remains the leading cause of preventable diseases and deaths in the country. Cigarette smoking continues across both genders and all age groups, with only slight variations among them. Data also...

Brought to you by Benzinga America’s shifting perception of cannabis can be traced through presidential cycles. When then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton was running for president in 1992, he said in an interview: "When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and didn't like it. I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again." The country's 44th president was more candid when asked about marijuana 14 years later. "When I was a kid, I inhaled," then-Sen. Barack Obama said in 2006....