Will Godfrey

Will is the editor-in-chief of Filter.

The Drug Policy Reform Movement Debates Its Next Moves

"We have a saying in Pakistan,” smiled the taxi driver. We were discussing two-year-olds as we drove out of St.…

November 12, 2019

Trump Announces Disastrous Plan to Ban Flavored Vapes Across the US

President Donald Trump announced on September 11 that he wants the Food and Drug Administration to plan to pull flavored…

September 11, 2019

Global Forum on Nicotine Asserts Urgency of Tobacco Harm Reduction

Where else,” wondered tobacco harm reduction advocate David Sweanor, “do we permit a really deadly product, but try to restrict…

June 17, 2019

How the World’s Oldest Drug Checking Service Makes High-Risk Pills “Unsellable”

Don’t sit on your day job,” Daan van der Gouwe advised people who operate drug checking services. By which he…

May 1, 2019

Huge Harm Reduction Gathering Allows Portugal to Teach the World

To walk down the hill to the Douro River in Porto on a sunny day is to navigate a delightful…

April 29, 2019

DPA’s Leader Shares Her Roots, Health Challenge and All-Drug Decrim Agenda

A formidable background in human rights advocacy and scholarship certainly qualifies Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno for her role as executive director…

December 20, 2018

The Harm Reduction Movement: Bigger Than Ever, But Facing Threats

If numbers gauge the health of a movement, this one is flourishing. Two thousand people crammed into a vast hotel…

October 19, 2018