Amid Decriminalization Trend, Cannabis Market Reaches New Highs

An array of recent studies confirm that cannabis has become a growth industry, spreading through societies across the globe as laws and customs fall hazily before its advance. Grand View Research estimates the worldwide marijuana market reached $13.2 billion in 2021, and will grow by more than 25 percent a year for the foreseeable future.

What Makes a Great Entrepreneur?

“Entrepreneur” is a word that is almost always seen in a positive context. We admire entrepreneurs, and often want to become one. They are pioneers, visionaries, people who change lives, communities and the world. When we think about entrepreneurship, we often focus on the giants who transformed an industry, or started an entirely new one.

Business Success Is Based on People

To be a successful leader in business, you must first find people who are willing to follow. As much as some CEOs or public officials may believe they are leading a charge that others will naturally join, great leadership takes planning, understanding and hard work. Dale Carnegie knew this well, based on his own close

The Growing Popularity of Naturopathic Treatment

Thousands of years before the development of modern pharmaceutical-based health systems, ancient civilizations had attained a clear understanding of disease, healing and natural remedies. A Chinese proverb instructed: “The superior doctor prevents sickness. The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness. The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.” In ancient Greece, Hippocrates advised: “Let food be thy

Homelessness in Your Community: How Businesses Can Help

In times of prosperity or times of recession — throughout the seasons of summer, winter or pandemic — the homeless situation continues to worsen. It’s a local, state and national issue, but also an issue for every person and business owner. In Florida, there are more than 28,000 homeless living on the streets. Nationwide, the

Researchers seek to understand the benefits of medical treatment from CBD

Researchers in  São Paulo, Brazil, in Florida and all over the world have been striving to understand the therapeutic potential of Cannabidiol (CBD) as science embarks on a new age. CBD is a compound that does not produce the psychoactive effects of marijuana, so researchers in São Paulo set out to study the advances in

The Max Planck Florida Institute of Neuroscience Aims to Understand the Visual Cortex

Florida hosts the first U.S. institution of the world-renowned Max Plank Society, which is Germany’s most successful research organisation, now with over 80 institutes worldwide. The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI), a 501(c)3 not-for-profit research organisation that brings together neuroscientists from around the world in order to answer fundamental questions about brain function

The Rise of Psychedelics

We’ve come a long way from the days when the majority of us knew with total certainty that mushrooms and other hallucinogenic drugs have only negative impacts on our bodies. That certainty came from the widespread condemnation of these drugs from governments, medical associations, and most major institutions in the developed world. But as a

Awakn Life Sciences Becomes First Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Clinic

Awakn Life Sciences, which offers psychedelic medical applications in the treatment of mental health conditions including addiction, announced on March 9 that it had obtained a substantial amount of proprietary research data on MDMA and ketamine molecules. The data acquisition represents five years of research and makes Awakn the first psychotherapy clinic in the United