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Brazil Heading for Even Deadlier Drug War After Election of President Jair Bolsonaro

On October 28, repressive drug policy secured a powerful platform in Brazil, the world’s fourth-largest democracy, with the election of…

October 29, 2018

Trump’s New Opioid Package Is Gift-Wrapped for Indivior—At What Cost?

[Christopher Moraff pens the DISPATCHES column for Filter.] On October 24, President Donald Trump signed a package of bills into law…

October 29, 2018

Misinformation About So-Called “Terrorist Drug” Dispelled in New Report

If you're in the US, you may not have heard of captagon—an understudied synthetic drug recreationally popular and widely traded…

October 25, 2018

Six Months Since My Daughters Were Taken, Here’s How the System Punishes Past Drug Use

The ground feels unsteady, like there's some dark ocean lurching beneath the wide flat floor tiles. I don't want to…

October 25, 2018

Why Everything About the Trump Administration’s New Opioid Video Campaign Is Wrong

A new campaign—from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the Truth Initiative and the nonprofit Ad…

October 24, 2018

Vaping Isn’t About Big Business—It’s About Us, the Vapers

Unless you are a smoker who has tried and failed to stop, I don’t think you can really appreciate how…

October 24, 2018

“Organizing Through Pain”—Harm Reduction Leaders Address Race and Structural Violence

A panel session titled “Organizing Through Pain and Policy: Multiracial Organizing in the Opioid Crisis” was just one of well…

October 23, 2018

Why South Korean and Japanese People Still Can’t (Legally) Smoke Weed in Canada

South Korean and Japanese people visiting or living in Canada will have to think twice about using cannabis–even though legalization…

October 23, 2018

Poll: Cannabis Legalization Support Tracks the Paths of Gay and Interracial Marriage

According to a new Gallup poll conducted at the beginning of October, more Americans than ever—66 percent—support cannabis legalization. The…

October 23, 2018

US Support for Death Penalty Hits All-Time Low

The percentage of Americans who believe in that the death penalty is applied fairly has dipped below 50 percent. Gallup's…

October 23, 2018