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• Family who can’t get ‘lifesaving’ medical cannabis could be forced to leave UK Robin Emerson is prepared to move to Canada if it means saving his daughter’s life (Picture: Robin EmersonBefore Jorja Emerson started taking medical cannabis, she suffered 30 epileptic seizures a day and couldn’t even lift her head off a pillow. Her eyes would roll into the back of her head and she regularly turned blue due to a lack of oxygen circulating her body. Staff at the emergency department saw her so regularly they would say ‘here comes Jorja’, and…
• Asian shares mostly lower after US stocks fall back Asian shares mostly declined Thursday after stock indexes shuffled lower on Wall Street. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 dipped 0.3% to finish at 29,598.66, although it had momentarily picked up after major business daily Nikkei reported Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will propose Friday a government stimulus package totaling a record 55.7 trillion yen ($488 billion). The rally quickly ran out of steam as more sobering concerns, such as the coronavirus pandemic, weighed in. Australia's S&P;/ASX 200 edged up 0.1% to 7,379.20,…
• Asian shares mostly decline after US stocks shuffle lower By YURI KAGEYAMA NEW YORK (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Thursday after stock indexes shuffled lower on Wall Street. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dipped 0.7% to 29,490.53 in early trading. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged up 0.2% to 7,381.40, while South Korea’s Kospi slipped 0.6% to 2,944.52. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 1.7% to 25,227.83. The Shanghai Composite shed 0.5% to 3,520.77. Recent government data have shown the coronavirus pandemic continues to hurt the Japanese economy. A supply crunch in…
• Cannabis bust on Indigenous land highlights legal divide A federal raid on a household marijuana garden on tribal land in northern New Mexico is sowing uncertainty and resentment about U.S. drug enforcement priorities on Native American reservations, as more states roll out legal marketplaces for recreational pot sales. In late September, Bureau of Indian Affairs officers confiscated nine cannabis plants from a home garden at Picuris Pueblo that was tended by Charles Farden, a local resident since childhood who is not Native American. The 54-year-old is enrolled in…
• Cannabis bust on Indigenous land highlights legal divide A federal raid on a household marijuana garden on tribal land in northern New Mexico is sowing uncertainty and resentment about U.S. drug enforcement priorities on Native American reservations, as more states roll out legal marketplaces for recreational pot sales. In late September, Bureau of Indian Affairs officers confiscated nine cannabis plants from a home garden at Picuris Pueblo that was tended by Charles Farden, a local resident since childhood who is not Native American. The 54-year-old is enrolled in…
• Cap on drug price hikes for privately insured sparks battle Workers and families with private health insurance would reap savings on prescription drugs from a little-noticed provision in President Joe Biden's sweeping social agenda bill. It's meant to to break the cycle of annual price increases for widely used medicines. That provision would require drug companies to pay rebates to Medicare if they increase prices above the rate of inflation. Drugs sold to private plans would count in calculating the penalty, like a tax on price increases. The issue is…
• Theranos founder Holmes testifies on stolen corporate logos In her third day defending herself on the witness stand against criminal fraud charges, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes testified that she was responsible for putting logos from pharmaceutical companies on Theranos reports without authorization, telling jurors, ‘”I wish I had done it differently.” The pilfered logos from pharma giants Pfizer and Schering-Plough, slapped onto Theranos reports lauding its own blood-testing technology, are among the most damaging evidence against Holmes that the jury has seen. Jurors have heard that Holmes distributed…