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The Lack of Prosecutor Accountability Behind Trucker’s 110-Year Sentence

By now, much of the world has heard of Kayla Wildeman, the deputy prosecutor in Golden, Colorado who boasted on…

December 23, 2021

NYC’s Safe Consumption Sites Have Averted 63 Overdoses in Three Weeks

In the three weeks since the first authorized safe consumption sites (SCS) in the US began operating, the two New…

December 22, 2021

NY Bill Would Extend Marijuana Equity to Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual People

A New York senator filed a bill to make it so that gay, lesbian and bisexual people can qualify as…

December 21, 2021

SF Mayor London Breed Plans More Drug Arrests to “Take Back Our Tenderloin”

Declaring that “We need to take back our Tenderloin,” a hip, mixed-income neighborhood in San Francisco with a large unhoused…

December 20, 2021

Ex-WHO Director Slams Its Tobacco Harm Reduction Denial

The World Health Organization’s reputation took another big hit at a conference in London earlier this month that discussed global…

December 20, 2021

Alcohol and Dementia: Why the Evidence Has Been Suppressed

A familiar substance has repeatedly been associated with protection against dementia. But we’re not allowed to learn that. Instead, government…

December 20, 2021

Oregon County Debates Temporary Sites for Unhoused People as Winter Sets In

Elected officials in largely rural Deschutes County, Oregon, and its largest city of Bend, are debating where to let unhoused…

December 17, 2021

Canada Allows Three Mental Health Patients to Access Psilocybin Therapy

Canada's top health agency has agreed to allow an additional three people to use psilocybin mushrooms, a naturally-occurring psychedelic, as…

December 16, 2021

Learning the Blues: West Coast Grapples With Shifting Drug Supply

“Forever, the prevalence of what kinds of drugs people did was completely boring,” Alex Kral, an epidemiologist from the nonprofit…

December 16, 2021

Federal Data Show Sharp Decrease in Teen Drug Use in 2021

On December 15, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)—a federal research agency in the United States Department of Health…

December 15, 2021