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UN Drug Commission Votes to Ban Cannabis Compound Under International Treaty

The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) has voted to ban the marijuana component hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) under an international…

March 14, 2025

Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Conversion Therapy Ban

On March 10, the Supreme Court stated that it will review the constitutionality of a state ban on conversion therapy…

March 13, 2025

GOP Plans to Slash Medicaid Would Worsen Overdose Crisis

Republicans, in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, aim to cut trillions of dollars in federal…

March 13, 2025

New CDC Leadership Highly Unlikely to End Its Nicotine Misinformation

[This article was updated on March 13 to reflect breaking news.]   On March 13, the Senate Health, Education, Labor,…

March 12, 2025

Saudi Arabia a Key Driver of 2024 Global Surge in Executions for Drugs

Saudi Arabia executed at least 122 people for drug-related convictions in 2024, its highest known total. At the end of…

March 12, 2025

Former Philippines President Duterte Arrested for His Brutal Drug War

Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested over the brutal drug war waged during his time in power. Philippines…

March 11, 2025

All the New Guards Hired to Improve Security Are Making Prison Less Safe

In the wake of a Department of Justice investigation that confirmed conditions in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons are…

March 11, 2025

Canada Lets Trump’s Trade War Fuel Its Own Drug War

The Canadian government has continued to step up its resourcing of border enforcement in response to tariff-related demands by United…

March 11, 2025

Federal Drug Trafficking Data Show Who Gets Prosecuted for Overdose

Data from the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) show that under 7 percent of people convicted in recent federal overdose…

March 10, 2025

Vape Scaremongering: The Science-to-Media Pipeline

It’s a scenario that has become all too familiar. Tobacco harm reduction experts recently scrambled to tackle alarmist news coverage,…

March 10, 2025