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Toronto Will Make Drug Decriminalization Request, But Fears Remain

In a publicly broadcast meeting on December 6, Toronto’s Board of Health voted unanimously to move forward with an exemption…

December 7, 2021

Denver Passes Ban on Sales of Flavored Vaping Products

[Update, December 12: A few days after the publication of this report, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock used his power of…

December 7, 2021

How Certain DAs in Red States Could Avoid Prosecuting Abortion Post-Roe

The year is 2022. The Supreme Court just issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a majority…

December 7, 2021

Why China Could Revolutionize Global Tobacco Harm Reduction

China has just amended its tobacco monopoly law to include e-cigarettes, as Filter reported. This means that vaping products and…

December 6, 2021

National Drug-User Union Emphasizes Tobacco Harm Reduction

Cigarette smoking among people who use illicit drugs doesn’t receive much attention, despite the fact that this population has some…

December 3, 2021

A Rural Michigan County Is Getting Its First Syringe Program

A rural Michigan county is getting its first syringe service program (SSP). It comes at a time when the state…

December 2, 2021

China’s Decision to Regulate Vaping Products Has Global Implications

China revealed on November 26 that it would officially regulate vaping products under its tobacco monopoly law. The decision has…

December 2, 2021

How the Criminalization of Testosterone Attacks Gender Variant People

On a Saturday night two years ago, Stann Fransisco was driving back home to New Mexico after visiting their parents…

December 2, 2021

What’s Holding Back New York’s Efforts to End AIDS?

On December 1, World AIDS Day, a coalition of HIV/AIDS advocates is rallying in downtown New York City, calling for…

December 1, 2021

The Influential HOPE Probation Program Is Badly Misnamed

Last month, a woman won $7 million in a federal court in Hawaii against the state’s Department of Public Safety,…

December 1, 2021