TL;DR? “Dry January” is an eight-year-old initiative that challenges British citizens to abstain from alcohol for the full month of... Read More
TL;DR A new study by researchers at Yale and UC Davis shows opioid-related deaths were reduced in counties with more... Read More
TL;DR UFC, alongside its anti-doping partner USADA, have relaxed its policy on how cannabis consumption is handled within the sport ... Read More
TL;DR? An imminent nationwide survey produced by a group of French MPs launching to better understand public opinion on recreational... Read More
TL;DR? Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s mayor, is looking to ban non-residents from entering the city’s cannabis coffee shops Only Dutch citizens... Read More
Let’s be honest, 2020 was a terrible year. Australian bush fires, the deaths of well-loved celebrities, civil unrest in the... Read More
TL;DR? Gov. Jay Robert “J.B.” Pritzker announced the expungement and forgiveness of over half a million Illinois residents with minor,... Read More
TL;DR? Two new bills on South Carolina medical cannabis legalization pre-filled and ready to be debated in early 2021: S.150... Read More
TL;DR The European Commission has U-turned on its preliminary decision to classify CBD as a narcotic Since 2019, CBD has... Read More
Jay-Z may very well have 99 problems but his position in the cannabis industry ain’t one. The hip hop man,... Read More
To help understand how this got off the ground, the flavor ban reversal and where the industry could be headed from here, we sat down with one of the leaders of the influential pro-vaping group, We Vape We Vote. Read More
Trump announced recently that he's backing off from the flavor ban. At least for now. While of course a welcomed move from those within the industry, it still leaves a skeptical flavor (excuse the pun) in the mouths of professionals and connoisseurs. That the battle may be won, but the war certainly isn't. Read More
Over the last few weeks, reports of a "mystery illness" relating to vaping have been making their rounds, but what's really going on? What do we know so far? Should nicotine vapers be worried? Here's everything you need to know. Read More
The Global Forum on Nicotine included talks from over 80 experts in vaping science, policy and more, taking place over three days in Warsaw. There was a lot of useful information shared over the course of the weekend, but here are my top 10 take-away points. Read More
The US Food and Drug Administration has declared a war on vaping products some time ago now. August 8th, 2016 marked... Read More
It’s all over the news these days – ‘a vape pen explodes, costing a man five of his teeth’; or,... Read More
On November 8, California voters decided to say a firm ‘yes’ to Proposition 56, which will increase the excise tax on cigarettes and other products containing nicotine by a hefty margin. Read More
As everyone has heard by now, the FDA’s disastrous proposal to regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco products has gone ahead with none of the changes vaping advocates may have been hoping for. We wanted continued innovation with improved product standards; we got thinly-veiled prohibition. Read More
Researchers are spying on your tweets, a judge in New York has been smart enough to declare that vaping is not smoking, more evidence-based rationality emerges from the UK and journalists are given a much-needed dose of common sense on the (non) issue of “e-cigarette battery explosions” – it’s the Week in Vaping. Read More
Tobacco controllers sneak into a vape convention and discover “particles” in the air, a politician vapes in Congress, and UK data shows that the disastrous population-level consequences of vaping we keep hearing about don’t seem to be materializing: it’s the Week in Vaping. Read More