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PharmaCan Capital, a holding company focusing on the Canadian medical marijuana market, is set to go public next week, opening up for investors a basket of licensed producers and signaling the appetite for a growing industry.

Women in headscarves and men in tatty clothes puff on a glass pipe as smoke swirls around their faces. The pictures published by Iranian media and blogs in recent months are a sign of a new drug epidemic: shishe, or methamphetamine.

British retailers must provide clear information to investors about their income from suppliers, the country's accounting watchdog said on Monday as it investigates a book-keeping scandal at leading supermarket Tesco.