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The Frankfurt Resolution of 1990 Still Inspires City-Level Drug Policy Reforms
Nearly 30 years ago, a group of European cities signed a groundbreaking drug policy ...
What Is Harm Reduction, Anyway?
We often describe Filter as “harm reduction journalism”—meaning both journalism that comes out of ...
Cuomo Wants to Treat Vaping like Tobacco
On January 12, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to raise the ...
Rose McGowan to Accept Reduced Drug Charge to Avoid Criminal Trial. She’ll Be Fine—Many Others Aren’t So Lucky
Actress Rose McGowan—one of the first women to come forward when Harvey Weinstein was ...
January 9, 2019 Media Roundup: Voting Rights Restored in Florida, Actor Eric Bogosian Is Misinformed; and So, of Course, Is Trump
Most Imported Heroin Comes Through Legal Points of Entry [Washington Post] In his ...
January 8, 2019 Media Roundup: Philly’s Contradictory Commitment to Harm Reduction and Denver’s Possible Psilocybin Decriminalization
Smoking Is at a Record Low in the US, but the Benefits Aren’t Shared ...
January 2, 2019 Media Roundup: A Woman’s Rights, a Distorted Drug Ranking and Qatar “Sin Tax”
Here’s what we’re talking about today: A Woman’s Rights [New York Times] “If ...
96 Percent of People Arrested for Weed in Baltimore from 2015-2017 Were Black
Decriminalization of cannabis is not enough. A recent analysis from the Baltimore Fishbowl and the ...
Harm Reduction Incognito: Low-ABV Drinks
As “harm reduction” enters the mainstream lexicon, people hearing it for the first time ...
Shut-Down of Orange County Needle Exchange Program a Win for Backwards Thinking
One step forward, two back. The day after a federal judge issued a groundbreaking ...
