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DEA Wants to Add Five Drugs to the Highly Criminalized Schedule I List

It’s dispiriting that in 2022, with decriminalization efforts taking off nationwide, adding more drugs to the Controlled Substances Act is…

February 3, 2022

We Can Still Stop the Cannabis Monopolies

If you think two or three powerful companies owning and controlling the sales of all regulated marijuana sounds like a…

February 2, 2022

Appeal Dismissal Means New Alberta SCS Barriers Now Take Effect

Alberta harm reductionists are reeling as their appeal over an injunction against a new provincial supervised consumption sites mandate was…

February 1, 2022

One Year on, Oregon Drug Decriminalization Is Boosting Harm Reduction and Housing

February 1 marks the one-year anniversary since Measure 110 took effect in Oregon, decriminalizing low-level drug possession and increasing funding…

February 1, 2022

It’s Time for Maine to Free Us From One-to-One Syringe Distribution

Maine is a rural state, where many people who use drugs may be forced to drive three or four hours…

February 1, 2022

US Vaping’s Future Could Hinge, in Part, on the Triton Case

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals listened to oral arguments on January 31 about a case that could help to…

January 31, 2022

What’s Motivating the DA Charging a Minor With Drug-Induced Homicide?

After taking office in 2011, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen helped lead his jurisdiction to prosecute 177 minors…

January 31, 2022

Top NJ Lawmaker’s Spurious Reasons to Keep Cannabis Home Grow Illegal

In New Jersey, where adult-use cannabis is legal, home grow remains criminalized, with penalties of up to five years in…

January 28, 2022

Are We Seeing Early Signs of Common Ground in US Tobacco Control?

On January 27, a group of tobacco control experts published a letter in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH),…

January 28, 2022

Can CBD Help Reduce Cravings for People With Opioid Use Disorder?

The FDA has approved a Phase 2 clinical trial for a cannabidiol (CDB) pill for opioid use disorder (OUD) patients…

January 27, 2022