Matthew Perrone

Associated Press

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

May 1, 2025

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Thailand Banning Cannabis Sales Without a Prescription 3 Years After Decriminalization

June 26, 2025

Verano's New Dispensary Makes Cannabis Shopping More Like Regular Shopping

June 25, 2025

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DDS Launches New Cannabis Extraction Equipment in Wake of Cascade Closure

June 25, 2025

Industrial Media Unboxing Video

Industrial Media Unboxing Video

IEN Unboxed is a new show in which our editors unbox new tools on the market and discuss their features.

May 1, 2025

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FDA's Top Tobacco Official Is Removed from Post

During his time at FDA, teen vaping has fallen to a 10-year low.

April 1, 2025

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New York Sues Vape Distributors Over Elf Bar and Other Fruit and Candy e-Cigarettes

Juul has paid more than $1 billion to settle dozens of state and local lawsuits.

February 20, 2025

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Teen Vaping Hits 10-Year Low in the U.S.

The latest survey numbers show the teen vaping rate fell to under 6% this year.

September 6, 2024

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FDA Rejects Psychedelic MDMA as Treatment for PTSD, Calling for Additional Study

Drugmaker Lykos Therapeutics said the FDA notified the company that its drug "could not be approved based on data submitted to date."

August 12, 2024

Casey Tylek, a U.S. Army veteran, stands for a portrait at his home in Leominster, Mass., on July 13, 2024. Tylek credits MDMA-assisted therapy with resolving anger, anxiety and trauma stemming from a rocket attack in in Iraq.

Veterans Lobbied for Psychedelic Therapy, But it May Not Be Enough to Save MDMA

The FDA is widely expected to delay or decline approval when it makes its decision by mid-August.

July 26, 2024

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FDA OKs Best-Selling e-Cigarette Vuse Alto

But only in tobacco flavor.

July 18, 2024

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FDA OKs First Menthol e-Cigarettes

It acknowledged that vaping flavors can reduce the harms of traditional tobacco smoking.

June 24, 2024

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FDA, DOJ Pledge More Cooperation on Illegal e-Cigarettes

Thousands of unauthorized vaping products continue to flow into the U.S., largely from China.

June 11, 2024

In this photo made with a long exposure, a man is silhouetted against lights reflected in the waters off Cape Neddick in Maine on Dec. 11, 2017. Federal health advisers are considering the first request to approve the mind-altering club drug MDMA as a treatment for PTSD. The advisers to the Food and Drug Administration are scheduled to vote on the drug's safety and effectiveness Tuesday, June 4, 2024, potentially setting the stage for federal approval later this year.

Panel Rejects MDMA as a PTSD Treatment in Possible Setback for Advocates

It cited flawed study data, questionable research conduct and significant drug risks.

June 6, 2024

In this photo made with a long exposure, a man is silhouetted against lights reflected in the waters off Cape Neddick in Maine on Dec. 11, 2017. Federal health advisers are considering the first request to approve the mind-altering club drug MDMA as a treatment for PTSD. The advisers to the Food and Drug Administration are scheduled to vote on the drug's safety and effectiveness Tuesday, June 4, 2024, potentially setting the stage for federal approval later this year.

Psychedelic Drug MDMA Faces FDA Panel in Bid to Become First-of-a-Kind PTSD Medication

Regulators have questions about safety risks.

June 4, 2024

This photo provided by the Center for Psychedelic Therapy Research shows a Yehuda Lab MDMA-assisted therapy treatment room at the James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Bronx borough of New York. On Friday, May 31, 2024, the Food and Drug Administration posted its initial review of MDMA, the mind-altering club drug, as a treatment for PTSD. In their assessment, FDA scientists said that patients who received MDMA and talk therapy showed “rapid, clinically meaningful, durable improvements in their PTSD symptoms,.' But they also called the research “challenging to interpret,” and questioned how long the benefits might last.

Psychedelic Drug MDMA Faces Questions as FDA Considers Approval for PTSD

If approved, MDMA would be reclassified as a prescription medicine.

June 3, 2024

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As Investors Pile into Psychedelics, Idealism Gives Way to Pharma Economics

Wall Street's sudden exuberance for hallucinogens has rankled longtime advocates and philanthropists.

February 5, 2024

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In Crowded Field of Psychedelic Startups, Filament CEO Makes Case for 'Natural' Drugs

What are "natural psychedelics" and how are they made?

November 13, 2023

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Vaping by High School Students Dropped this Year, Says U.S. Report

This year's survey involved more than 22,000 students.

November 3, 2023