IMF Publishes Call for Risk-Proportionate Nicotine Taxation
The International Monetary Fund has published a call for risk-proportionate taxation of nicotine products—in ...
Virginia Governor to Decide on Raft of Marijuana Bills, Including Legal Sales
Virginia lawmakers passed several marijuana-related bills in the legislative session that ended March 14, ...
Georgia Lawmakers’ “Number-One Priority” is Literacy, Except in Prisons
Georgia legislators say they’re going all-in to improve literacy rates. On March 10 the ...
Methadone Clinics to Blame for Unacceptable Drop-Out Rates
Given what the methadone clinic system subjects them to, is it really a surprise ...
DEA Emergency Order Puts Novel Benzo Bromazolam in Schedule I
The Drug Enforcement Administration has temporarily placed bromazolam, an unregulated benzodiazepine, under Schedule I ...
Vaping Is Safer Than Smoking: Now It’s Official in France
France’s national health and safety agency, ANSES, has published a report concluding that vaping ...
DOJ, VA to Take Legal Guardianship of Unhoused Veterans for “Ongoing Care”
On March 11, the Department of Justice and the Department of Veterans Affairs jointly ...
New Mexico Will Fund Psychedelic Treatment for Patients on Low Incomes
On March 11, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) signed the budget for ...
How Tennessee’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Are Already Playing Out in Prison
Through my three decades of incarceration in Tennessee, I’ve seen attitudes toward LGBTQ+ prisoners ...
The Youth-Smoking Collapse Nobody Wants to Talk About
For more than a decade, one of the most persistent claims in the tobacco ...
