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Vaping Does Not Cause Heart Attacks, Study Finds, Refuting Previous Claims

E-cigarettes are not associated with increased heart attack incidence among people without a history of smoking combustible cigarettes, according to…

August 23, 2021

Prosecutors Call on Biden to Create Task Force Aimed at Reform

Decrying “tough-on-crime” policies, a group of more than 100 law enforcement leaders, mostly prosecutors, sent a letter to President Joe…

August 20, 2021

Tobacco Control Experts Unite for Unprecedented Endorsement of Vaping

In a new paper, the most influential tobacco control experts in the country have come together to endorse the harm…

August 19, 2021

At SXSW 2022, Drug Legalization Is Trendy—Unless the Drug Is Nicotine

There’s no cultural barometer quite like South by Southwest (SXSW), the annual weeklong festival in Austin, Texas, that hosts live…

August 19, 2021

The Pandemic Is Bringing Us Closer to the First HIV Vaccine

Moderna will soon begin the first-ever human clinical trials for a messenger RNA-based HIV vaccine, utilizing the same technology as…

August 19, 2021

Can Harm Reduction Reform the Drug Courts?

Among prohibitionists and proponents of the drug war, drug courts are touted as a means of diverting people from incarceration.…

August 18, 2021

Will the Drug Liberation Movement Make Room for Nicotine?

I recently came across a tweet from high-profile psychedelics researcher Matthew Johnson that took my by surprise: “Nicotine,” Johnson wrote,…

August 18, 2021

Latest Overdose Fatality Numbers Underscore Flaw in Federal Data

More than 95,000 people died of overdose in the United States between January 2020 and January 2021, according to recently…

August 17, 2021

Hundreds of Drug War Prisoners in WA Can Now Apply for Commutation

The governor of Washington State on Monday unveiled a new process through which hundreds of people with low-level drug convictions…

August 17, 2021

Rural Counties Awarded $78 Million through Opioid Response Program

The federal government has allocated more than $80 million to combat the opioid-involved overdose crisis and support public health in…

August 16, 2021