On April 22, high-ranking Democratic legislators introduced a bicameral bill that would create the country’s first federal vaping tax. Senate…
Over 1,200 West Virginians died of overdose in 2020, new data show—a 45 percent increase from 2019. This coincides with…
As Washington State’s legislative session drew to a close this weekend, lawmakers approved a bill that for the next two…
Tanesia DeMacon is no stranger to jail. She estimates she was arrested no fewer than 15 times, starting at the…
On 4/20, the Federal Cannabis Regulations Working Group—consisting of cannabis regulators, public health experts and criminal justice reform advocates convened…
A rarity among academic papers, a new piece of research proposes models for legalizing opioids for non-medical use. A glut of…
On April 8, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) spearheaded a coalition—including the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the…
The governor of New Mexico signed a bill on April 12 to legalize marijuana in the state, as well as…
Maine lawmakers have formally introduced a bill to broadly decriminalize possession of all currently illicit drugs—the latest state-based move to…
Vaping captures headlines in the United States, where outcry over a perceived youth “epidemic” drives health misinformation and efforts to…