Florida Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Decriminalize All Drugs

    A Florida lawmaker has introduced a bill to decriminalize all currently illicit drugs, provide ...

    New Zealand Permanently Legalizes Drug Checking, a Global First

    New Zealand permanently legalized drug checking on November 23, by passing a bill to ...

    St. Louis to Decriminalize Adult-Use Marijuana Possession and Cultivation

    St. Louis lawmakers on November 23 unanimously approved a bill to decriminalize marijuana possession ...

    What Drugs, Sex Work and One Key Case Mean for the Baltimore DA Race

    In 2018, attorney Ivan Bates ran against incumbent Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and ...

    The Right Uses Wisconsin Parade Tragedy to Attack Bail Reform

    After an SUV ploughed through a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21, ...

    How Key Early Ideas Helped Shape Today’s Harm Reduction Movement

    [This article is excerpted from UNDOING DRUGS: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and ...

    Why the ACLU Is Taking On Wyoming’s Pretrial “24/7 Sobriety” Program

    Criminologists and, increasingly, local court systems love the idea of “swift, certain and fair” ...

    A Court Rejected the Disease Theory of Opioid Addiction. Will We Listen?

    The idea that opioid painkillers are inevitably addictive was put on trial and refuted. ...