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A caregiver picks out a marijuana bud for a patient at a marijuana dispensary in Denver.

Colorado’s legal weed market: $700 million in sales last year, $1 billion by 2016

June 21, 2019 at 7:58 a.m.

Legal marijuana was a $700 million dollar industry in Colorado last year, according to a Washington Post analysis of recently released tax data from the state's Department of Revenue. In...

More than a third of American workers don’t get sick leave, and they’re making the rest of us ill

June 16, 2018 at 5:18 a.m.

President Barack Obama's is proposing legislation Thursday that would give American workers seven days a year of paid sick leave. The U.S. remains the world's only wealthy nation that does...

The Google misery index: The times of year we’re most depressed, anxious and stressed

June 18, 2018 at 4:25 a.m.

Depression. Anxiety. Pain. Stress. Fatigue. Using Google's daily "search interest" feature, I've plotted the past year's worth of these five terms, and aggregated them into an index of misery. Higher...

Bottles of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer are displayed in a six pack at a convenience store.

Drinking and the 10 percent

May 11, 2019 at 1:50 a.m.

Do you drink a glass of wine with dinner every night? That puts you in the top 30 percent of American adults in terms of per-capita alcohol consumption. If you...

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