The Washington Post: They say there are markets for everything, but health care has historically been a tough one to navigate. Prices for services and drugs vary widely among providers, and it’s often impossible to know the final cost of a medication until the prescription has already been filled. Brad Bangerter, a health insurance administrator […]
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Ever since various states have started legalizing medical marijuana, various products have popped up to meet that need. Canna Cola is one such product, although you won’t find Clay Butler using it himself. He doesn’t drink, and he doesn’t smoke. According to MercuryNews.com, Clay is a clean living guy. Yet, Butler is a partner in
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Arbitrage means buying something where the price is cheap and reselling it where the price is high. A entrepreneurial pharmacist from Germany did just that after discovering, while on vacation in the late 1970s, that Benadryl sold in the UK for one-third of the price it normally fetched in Germany. He checked the ingredients on
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Cassandra Daily: When it comes to preferred methods of mellowing out, wine and weed aren’t mutually exclusive—which makes sense given their shared California provenance. Marijuana-infused wine dates back to the hedonistic ’80s, when it was more a novel jab at The War on Drugs, but it’s been making a comeback lately as a more highbrow
For three months, ending last week, legalized marijuana dealers had something that they could have only dreamed of before, the apparent approval of the patent office reports the Wall Street Journal. On April 1, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office created a new trademark category: “Processed plant matter for medicinal purposes, namely medical marijuana.” The
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The folks over at Home Owners Insurance have put together an interesting infographic about caffeine. Photo by Home Owners Insurance.
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According to a story at CNBC.com, medical marijuana dispensaries are springing up in Colorado’s major cities like coffee shops, nail parlors, tanning salons or taco shops. Though Colorado voters amended the state Constitution to allow the use and sale of marijuana for a variety of medicinal reasons ten years ago, the number of patients and
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