Forget protein shakes. The newest workout supplement? Marijuana.

A growing number of people are toking up before hitting the weight room, sports field, or mixed martial arts gym.

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The Red Sox scratched the right fielder Monday after he continued to feel tightness in his left side.

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

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The Red Sox veteran is 0 for 7 in his first two games, but ?I?ve hit the ball good, just right to them.?

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David Price will go against Aaron Sanchez in this 1:05 p.m. game.

Boston MA 5/27/18 Boston Celtics Terry Rozier has his slam dunk attempt blocked by Cleveland Cavaliers LeBron James during third quarter action in game seven of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals at TD Garden. (photo by Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) topic: reporter:

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GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

The Celtics can only look to themselves to blame

The Celtics prided themselves all season on their balance, but in Game 7, they were lopsided.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/27/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy-19665.jpg These Celtics not making the Finals isn?t supposed to be disappointing. But it is

In the end, the young Celtics looked . . . young. They got tight. They couldn?t put the staggering Cavaliers to bed.

Water rushes through Main Street in Ellicott City, Md., Sunday, May 27, 2018. Flash flooding and water rescues are being reported in Maryland as heavy rain soaks much of the state. (Libby Solomon/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

One man reported missing after flash flood surges through Maryland community

Flash floods struck a Maryland city on Sunday that had been wracked by similar devastation two years earlier.

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Members of the United States military who lost their lives serving their country will be commemorated Monday in honor of Memorial Day.

Opinion | Jack Hammond

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As a commander in three deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, I have lost more of my soldiers to suicide than I lost in combat.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/vet.jpg Dorchester Marine?s name finally added to local Vietnam veterans memorial

A fallen Marine?s family succeeded in adding his name to the Dorchester memorial decades after he died in Vietnam.

Names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/28/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/962967176-7798.jpg Tom Brady, Bella Hadid play catch at the Grand Prix

He wasn?t available to throw the football to his teammates last week, but Tom Brady had no trouble completing a few passes to model Bella Hadid at the Formula 1 Grand Prix.

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French President Emmanuel Macron met Monday with a migrant from Mali lauded as a hero for scaling an apartment building to save a young child dangling from a balcony.

Report faults Children?s Hospital for medication errors

One patient who waited hours for an antibiotic died later after developing sepsis.

The Fine Print

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/25/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/LegacyTouch_28Consumer_003.jpg Sneaking a fingerprint of a dead body to sell tokens

A couple days after his father?s death, a grief-stricken man named Eric escorted his 87-year-old mother to a Malden funeral home that specializes in cremations.

National Weather Service Boston

It?s a wet beginning to Memorial Day, but skies may clear up

Memorial Day was off to a wet start with light drizzle and patchy fog in Greater Boston, but that might change later in the day.

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Farmers on the Hawaiian island of Kauai say their state should brace for a shortage of its taro crop, a staple of the traditional Hawaiian diet, after record-breaking rains flooded their fields.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/28/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Rex_Florida_governor_Rick_Scott_issu_9694923A.jpg As Alberto approaches Gulf Coast, storm marks unofficial start of hurricane season

Forecasters warned of life-threatening surf conditions, the possibility of a few brief tornadoes in much of Florida and parts of Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama.

ADRIAN WALKER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/walker-16414.jpg Once a nearly forgotten foster child, Steve Pemberton has become a beacon of hope

To say Steve Pemberton has defied the odds is an understatement: The onetime foster child is now a corporate executive, memoirist and philanthropist.

This undated photo provided by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office shows a note florida authorities say a woman slipped to a staff member at an animal hospital in Florida. Authorities say the woman was beaten and held captive for two days at gunpoint by her boyfriend, and escaped when she convinced him bring their dog to the animal hospital, where she slipped the note to a staff member. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports 39-year-old Jeremy Floyd was arrested at DeLand Animal Hospital. (Volusia County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Volusia County Sheriff's Office via AP

Woman held captive slips note to veterinary employee

A woman who was held captive for two days at gunpoint by her boyfriend escaped when she convinced him to bring their dog to an animal hospital ? and then slipped a note to a staff member.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/AFP_15E26X.jpg For Boston?s Irish diaspora, abortion referendum vote worth a trip home

?For people coming back over from America... it touched them so much, they had to return,? said one Irish woman.

Man climbs into Dunkin? Donuts drive-through window, climbs right back out

Methuen police released security footage of the break-in before announcing that the suspect was arrested on Sunday night.

A look at what?s open, what?s closed on Memorial Day

Retail and liquor stores are open, but banks and schools are closed.

Love Letters: The Podcast

Love Letters Podcast

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Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.

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Opinion & Ideas

EDITORIAL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/23/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/turner052318METRO24flaggarden189.jpg Flags for the fallen on Memorial Day

Boston Common ceremony is a haunting lesson in the true consequences of war ? one that should never be lost in the joy of welcoming summer.

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Real Estate

Back Bay penthouse goes for $8 million

In our weekly roundup, the four priciest home sales were in Boston proper. A penthouse apartment on Huntington Avenue took the top spot, raking in $8,000,000, followed by a downtown high-rise that sold for $5,000,000, and units in the South End and the Seaport District that went for $3,000,000-plus.