Not even Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, once referred to as “Wall Street’s most powerful law firm,” could…
Our society—even some of its most progressive elements—vilifies alcohol. This stands in opposition to public health, enables government suppression of…
Tobacco is India’s Trojan horse. It was brought to our shores five centuries ago on Portuguese ships. Indians readily took…
On August 29, President Trump announced $90.9 million support for Drug-Free Community (DFC) Grants, a program that administers funds to…
“We are doing something that has never been done before in the State of New York,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric…
On September 18, South Africa became the latest nation to decriminalize cannabis. The country's highest court ruled that cannabis—or dagga,…
“Treating America’s Opioid Addiction,” an ongoing three-part podcast miniseries by the Science History Institute's magazine Distillations, details America's cultural and medical…
I remember the day Backpage went down this year: April 6. I’d been working at a feverish pace, lining up…
Philadelphia has become ground zero for an unusual series of poisonings from heroin and/or fentanyl adulterated with a substance believed…
County jails in Washington, Massachusetts and Maine are facing lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The lawsuits…