Drugs + Money
Would You Pay More for Fair Trade Cocaine?
[This article was co-written with Zara Snapp and Julian Quintero.] People spend more per ...
How to Involve People Who Use Drugs in Your Organization
Advocates at the Drugs Research Network Scotland conference in Glasgow this week circulated a striking ...
Here’s How Infuriatingly Hard It Still Is to Get Medical Marijuana in New York
The sciatica pain jolting down my right leg was so severe that it was ...
Insurance Company to Non-Rich Heart Transplant Patient: Try Crowdfunding!
Patients in the financially segregated US healthcare system are frequently forced to raise money ...
El Chapo’s Trial Solves Nothing: The “Freelancer Effect” Applies Everywhere
It’s 1985. Law enforcement is closing in on the last remnants of the South ...
“Like Restricting Clean Needles”—Advocates Slam Age-Verification Plan for Under-Fire Juul
On November 13, JUUL Labs, the company behind America’s most popular vaping product, announced ...
Insys—Which Fought Cannabis Legalization—Now May Turn Itself Entirely Into a Cannabis Company
Insys—the pharmaceutical company investigated for its unethical fentanyl marketing tactics in the midst of ...
Tainted Pharma Company That Fought Legalization Applies to Sell “Marihuana”
On October 30, the DEA announced that Pharma company Insys Therapeutics filed in August for approval ...
Trump’s New Opioid Package Is Gift-Wrapped for Indivior—At What Cost?
[Christopher Moraff pens the DISPATCHES column for Filter.] On October 24, President Donald Trump signed ...
Misinformation About So-Called “Terrorist Drug” Dispelled in New Report
If you’re in the US, you may not have heard of captagon—an understudied synthetic ...
