The Age of Breast Cancer Awareness:

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This month, the magazine racks are lined with covers advertising stories about breast cancer. The stories have become almost a seasonal reminder: It must be October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The most recent figures from the National Center for Health Statistics clearly list heart disease as the leading cause of death in women overall. All cancers combined are the second leading cause of death. A closer look at cancer-related deaths among women reveals that lung and bronchus cancer top the list; breast cancer is second. For some women, breast cancer—not lung cancer or heart disease—is the disease that they fear most, and stories about breast cancer abound in consumer magazines for all ages.
“I think that one reason that breast cancer gets more than its fair share of coverage is due to the great efforts of breast cancer activists,” said Barron Lerner, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University, New York, and author of the book The Breast Cancer Wars.

Week in Review: Marijuana in Illinois

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Marijuana in Illinois

This week in marijuana news from home & beyond:

The New York Times published an Op-Ed on July 27, igniting a lively debate that will continue to be backed up over 6 subsequent interactive articles. Then the celebs came out of the woodwork: everyone from Arianna Huffington to Mark Cuban is in favor of ending prohibition.

A CBD bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives this week. While there is no mention of legalizing cannabis, this is a step toward national recognition of marijuana as medicine, and normalization of laws relating to marijuana.

In local news, Chicago approved zoning regulations, and could be seeing dispensaries in some of its more hip neighborhoods like River North and River West.

See you next week!

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