Sound Familiar? Punjab Leader Campaigns Against “Drug Menace,” Blames Pakistan for Trafficking
On October 6 the chief minister of the northern Indian state of Punjab, Amarinder ...
Deep Systemic Change: My 10 Steps to Transform Addiction Treatment
As panel after summit after commission after white paper is put forward claiming to ...
A Cannabis Law Expert Explains Three Major Hurdles for the Industry
“That can’t be right, marijuana is legal here.” It’s a common refrain from would-be ...
Faulty Study Questioning Effectiveness of Safer Consumption Spaces Now Retracted—But the Damage Was Done
The International Journal of Drug Policy announced last week that they retracted a recently ...
Infographic: The “Iron Law of Prohibition”
On September 24 the Global Commission on Drug Policy—a heavyweight group co-founded by Richard ...
As the WHO Gathers, Our Global Tobacco Control Framework Needs Radical Overhaul
Twenty-five years ago, when I started working on tobacco control at a government policy ...
Existence of Secret Anti-Marijuana Committee Confirmed by ONDCP
On October 1, Buzzfeed News published a leaked letter from Office of National Drug ...
Why California Has Largely Been Spared Fentanyl Deaths—So Far
America’s crisis of drug-overdose deaths has largely spared California. At 11.2 deaths per 100,000 ...
In Defense of Juul, After the Latest Media Hit-Piece
The media frenzy against Juul, the US market leader in vaping products, is on ...
“People Will Die Because of his Veto”—California Governor Jerry Brown Rejects San Francisco Supervised Consumption Spaces
On September 30, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed Assembly Bill 186, a bill that ...
