“That can’t be right, marijuana is legal here.” It's a common refrain from would-be cannabis entrepreneurs, initially filled with enthusiasm—only…
The International Journal of Drug Policy announced last week that they retracted a recently published meta-analysis on the health impacts…
On September 24 the Global Commission on Drug Policy—a heavyweight group co-founded by Richard Branson and including former presidents and prime ministers…
Twenty-five years ago, when I started working on tobacco control at a government policy level, the politicians used to reject…
On October 1, Buzzfeed News published a leaked letter from Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) acting director James…
America's crisis of drug-overdose deaths has largely spared California. At 11.2 deaths per 100,000 people in 2016, California's rate of…
The media frenzy against Juul, the US market leader in vaping products, is on steroids—and this feeds directly into actions…
On September 30, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed Assembly Bill 186, a bill that would have authorized San Francisco to…
On October 1, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) and a coalition of grassroots organizations launched Mass Bail Out, a…
On September 21, a week before Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Trump tweeted: "I…