Trump weighs order to loosen federal marijuana restrictionsPresident Trump is considering reclassifying marijuana from a highly restricted Schedule I drug to Schedule III, a move that could signific...
16 Dec, 2025, 08.45 AM IST
Wall Street indexes climb as investors brush off government shutdown uncertaintiesWall Street indexes closed higher on Monday. Nasdaq led gains driven by technology stocks. Investors focused on artificial intelligence and...
30 Sep, 2025, 07.43 AM IST
Medical cannabis breakthrough: Largest-ever AI study uncovers promising potential in cancer treatmentA latest research, which took help of artificial intelligence (AI) to look into more than 10,000 studies on cannabis and cancer, has overwh...
19 Apr, 2025, 12.04 AM IST
US to reclassify cannabis as low-risk drug, in major shiftThe US attorney general sent a proposal to the White House on Tuesday to "reclassify marijuana," Justice Department spokesperson Xochitl Hi...
01 May, 2024, 07.45 AM IST
The world has too much wine, and farmers are ripping up vinesData from the International Organisation of Vine and Wine show that global consumption has lagged behind production of wine since at least ...
09 Mar, 2024, 10.19 AM IST
Chatbots may 'hallucinate' more often than many realiseWhen Google introduced a similar chatbot several weeks later, it spewed nonsense about the James Webb telescope. The next day, Microsoft's ...
09 Nov, 2023, 01.03 PM IST
How a complicated regulatory landscape hurting startups selling food, clothes & wellness products made from hempHemp gets a bad rap due to its infamous cousin marijuana. To make matters worse, they look somewhat alike. They both belong to the cannabis...
13 Aug, 2023, 10.20 AM IST
Cannabis e-commerce platform Dutchie raises $350 million, valued at $3.75 billionThe massive funding round is Dutchie's second this year. The Bend, Oregon-based company raised $200 million in March when it was valued at ...
14 Oct, 2021, 06.38 PM IST
Thematic ETFs boom, drawing punters and concernWhile Reddit "gamestonks" have grabbed recent headlines, retail investors are also credited with large flows into exchange-traded funds - b...
12 Feb, 2021, 10.03 PM IST
Cannabis startup HempStreet secures $1 million in Pre-Series A fundingBeing the first R&D to retail cannabis player in India, the company is pioneering the use of several cutting edge technological innovations...
11 Feb, 2020, 03.02 PM IST
The pot ETF is poised to go mainstream, analysts sayBlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, is “likely” to start a cannabis-focused exchange-traded fund.
13 Jul, 2019, 02.44 PM IST
Will global tobacco untouchability hurt ITC?ITC also faces the pressure of maintaining high dividend payout ratios to reward its shareholders as a compensation for poor returns.
14 Mar, 2019, 08.51 AM IST
‘Investing on steroids’ pays off for thematic ETFsThematic ETFs on average cost investors $5.80 for every $1,000 invested, compared with $5.00 for all ETFs.
01 Mar, 2019, 08.44 AM IST
Made-in-India drugs to be based on weed soonThe move to produce medicine formulations that incorporate hemp lend a fresh reputation to the otherwise controversial cannabis
24 Nov, 2018, 11.00 AM IST
Ratan Tata, Rajan Anandan back cannabis research firmThe Mumbai-based firm will grow cannabis and study its medicinal properties for use in treatment of epilepsy and breast cancer, as well as ...
21 Dec, 2017, 01.53 PM IST
Can ayurveda help with cancer? AIIMS to studyAIIMS will collaborate with experts from the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences and the All India Institute of Ayurveda to ...
29 Mar, 2017, 10.56 AM IST
Hemp cultivation: Uttarakhand's plan to hand out licences to grow the plant is a welcome step for farmers' livelihoodResearchers have shown hemp fibre can be an alternative to graphene as a supercapacitor, which stores electrical energy like a battery but ...
20 Dec, 2015, 07.22 AM IST