Unpublished Newswire

Emergency departments are seeing a spike in visits owing to a once unusual, highly unpleasant and, in rare cases, potentially life-threatening side effect of chronic cannabis use: severe bouts of vomiting lasting hours, even days. As pot becomes more potent and more convenient to purchase, emergency doctors are reporting more cases of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS, a gastrointestinal condition that can affect people who use cannabis frequently (several times a week, if not daily) over months or years. In addition to “cyclical” vomiting, other signs include morning nausea,...

It’s not just the so-called Iron Dome that’s protecting Israel from hundreds of Iranian missiles. The term Iron Dome has become “a stand-in for Israeli missile defence more broadly; so, it’s kind of like how we use Kleenex to describe every type of facial tissue,” said Wes Rumbaugh, a fellow in the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Defence systems known as David’s Sling and The Arrow are also both helping Israel to intercept and destroy long-range missiles fired from Iran. But even Israel’s vaunted missile defence system...