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“Lawmakers Have to Google It”: Inside the Struggle to Regulate Kratom

Dozens of legislatures across the United States are currently weighing how to regulate or ban kratom, a plant with mild…

March 28, 2023

“NRT or Cold Turkey”: Why Finland Won’t Back Tobacco Harm Reduction

Finland has vaping laws that are about as strict as they can be, short of actually banning it. There’s a…

March 27, 2023

Harm Reduction for the Syringes We Make in Prison

Harm reduction supplies are hard to come by in prison. In some facilities, people who inject drugs might use needles…

March 27, 2023

How DMT Generates “Novel Worlds” of Experience

A new study may give us the most detailed understanding yet of how psychedelic drugs affect our brains. Using brain…

March 24, 2023

Remembering Albert Woodfox, Who Fought to Free Me From Death Row

On March 1, Maurice Hastings was officially declared innocent after spending 38 years in prison wrongfully convicted of murder. I…

March 24, 2023

How Drug “Decriminalization” Fueled Brazil’s Mass Incarceration Crisis

At first glance, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s cabinet looks very different from that of predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.…

March 23, 2023

NY Governor Wants Illicit-Cannabis Crackdown Amid Slow Legal Rollout

New York’s governor is introducing legislation to increase enforcement authority to crack down on illicit marijuana retailers as the state…

March 23, 2023

Environmental Ruin, Aided by Drug War: How Can Defenders Fight Back?

Land use and control, combined with prohibition, is the fundamental motor driving environmental harm relating to production and sales of…

March 23, 2023

Reform Funder Under Fire for Hiring Naloxone “Moral Hazard” Researcher

Arnold Ventures is one of the very few big philanthropy funds that support criminal justice reform initiatives in the United…

March 22, 2023

Why Wisconsinites Spend Millions on Cannabis in Other States

Wisconsin residents are spending millions of dollars buying legal cannabis out of state, while it remains illegal back home. A…

March 22, 2023