“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…
“Don’t bother replacing the injections. Let nature take her course!” —Comment from a law enforcement-only forum, referencing naloxone provision;…