Drugs + Money

Dire Harm Reduction Funding Gap for Lower-Income Countries Is Growing

Last year, Harm Reduction International (HRI) released a report that found funding for harm reduction in 2019 was only 5…

May 9, 2022

Tobacco Bans in Our Prisons Are Rich Pickings for Me—and the COs

The first time the Georgia Department of Corrections tried to go tobacco-free was 1994. In the mid-'90s it was trendy…

May 5, 2022

DEA’s Rx Drug Take Back Day Branded Fun for All the Family

The worst thing I've seen suggested at one of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s biannual Prescription Drug Take Back days is…

April 29, 2022

One Drug Dominates Our Prison’s Supply. We Don’t Know What It Is.

During the pandemic, the Michigan Department of Corrections suspended all Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, “substance abuse” classes and support groups, many…

April 27, 2022

FDA Authorizes Logic Vapes as “Appropriate for the Protection of Public Health”

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized several tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn devices produced by Logic, which is owned…

March 24, 2022

Are Business Interests Shaping Oregon’s Psilocybin Regulations?

A top adviser to the Oregon state government on its legal psilocybin therapy program has quit amid complaints that he…

March 17, 2022

Altria Can Keep Its Stake in Juul, Judge Rules. What Are the Implications?

On February 15, an administrative law judge dismissed a complaint issued from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Juul and…

February 17, 2022

Social Equity Applicant to Grow Weed in Connecticut? That’ll Be $3 Million.

As Connecticut prepares to launch its legal adult-use cannabis market later this year, the state is now open to applications…

February 15, 2022

The Mexican Government’s Lawsuit Against US Gunmakers Over Drug-War Deaths

On January 31, officials representing 13 US states and dozens of counties, advocates and others submitted official statements in support…

February 8, 2022

We Can Still Stop the Cannabis Monopolies

If you think two or three powerful companies owning and controlling the sales of all regulated marijuana sounds like a…

February 2, 2022