Weed for weight loss, and more in biotech

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Weed for weight loss

Skye Bioscience was once a struggling, cash-starved penny stock. Today, the company is developing a treatment for obesity that was discovered through research into marijuana, and that might be additive to the GLP-1 blockbusters. Predictably, investors have taken notice.