Alexander Lekhtman 
San Francisco Votes on Prop F, to Drug-Test People on Public Benefits
San Francisco voters head to the polls on March 5 to weigh in on ...
St. Louis Weighs What to Do With the Shuttered “Workhouse” Jail
For years, St. Louis activists have fought to shut down the city’s notorious Medium ...
Do Cannabis “Desert” States Arrest More People After Neighbors Legalize? Probably Not.
Cannabis legalization has spread to states once considered unlikely, like conservative-leaning Missouri and Ohio. ...
California’s Prop 1 Would Expand Forced Treatment, Advocates Warn
On March 5, California voters will decide on Proposition 1. The ballot measure, backed ...
End of Wisconsin Gerrymander Offers Hope for Drug Policy Reform
Wisconsin politics could be transformed after Governor Tony Evers (D) signed new legislative maps ...
Fears for Drug Users and Many Others After Indonesia’s Presidential Election
Indonesia appears to have chosen an authoritarian-minded former general with a harrowing human rights ...
MDMA Close to Being Legal Medicine, as FDA Grants Priority Review
MDMA is getting ever closer to becoming a legal medicine. The federal Food and ...
How Reducing Homelessness Would Reduce Drug-Related Deaths
New research has indicated the extent to which cutting rates of homelessness would save ...
Cops Are Seizing More Mushrooms, as Public Interest in Psychedelics Grows
Police have seized increasing quantities of psilocybin mushrooms in recent years, new research has ...
Biden’s Border Security Deal Is Collapsing. What Now?
President Biden’s $118 billion anti-immigration deal is collapsing on the eve of its procedural ...
