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The FDA’s Vape Fiasco Will Perpetuate Smoking Deaths

What’s not to love to hate about the Food and Drug Administration’s non-decisions on nicotine vapes? We’re now almost two…

November 2, 2021

Seattle Times Slightly Obsessed With Abolitionist City Attorney Candidate

Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, a Seattle candidate for city attorney and self-identified prison and police abolitionist, can be characterized as a member…

November 1, 2021

NY Employers Can (Mostly) No Longer Fire You for Using Weed Off the Job

New Yorkers can no longer be fired for using marijuana while off the clock. Updated guidelines released by the state…

November 1, 2021

First Vape Company Full Stay Is Issued—and Suggests the FDA Miscalculated

On October 26, a United States federal court of appeals granted a full stay for vapor company Triton. This will…

October 28, 2021

The Annual “Halloween Candy or Edibles” Lie: Special COVID Edition

Because it is October, attorneys general across the country are participating in the annual tradition of urging parents to stand…

October 28, 2021

Fighting the Last War: An Excoriation of the WHO and Tobacco Control

The image on the cover of the new report, Fighting The Last War: The Who and International Tobacco Control, is…

October 28, 2021

Will Minneapolis Voters Replace Police With a Public Health Department?

On November 2, Minneapolis voters will decide whether to reshape the city's police department from its current form, and create…

October 27, 2021

Compassion Clubs Advance Toward Authorization in Vancouver

The headlines suggested that sanctioned heroin clubs were coming imminently to Vancouver, British Columbia. The truth is a little different.…

October 27, 2021

NIDA to Congress: Schedule I Is Obstructing “Critical Research” on Marijuana, Opioids

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) told Congress in a report obtained by Marijuana Moment that the Schedule I…

October 26, 2021

“Opioid Reckoning”: Oral Histories of the Complex Origins of Rehab

Language around addiction has changed so quickly in the past few years that Rose decided to change the name of…

October 26, 2021