Politics + Legalization
Italy’s Rocky Road From Harsh Prohibition to “Cannabis Light”
According to the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, 10 percent of ...
Harm Production: Ontario’s Brutal Cuts Add Fuel to the Overdose Fire
Viewed from the United States, Canada’s comparatively liberal social mores and universal healthcare would ...
Oakland Decriminalizes Psychedelic Mushrooms and Plants in Council Vote
On June 4, the City Council of Oakland, California unanimously voted in favor of ...
Mexico Public Health Agency Lashes Out Against Tobacco Harm Reduction
Mexico’s consumer health protection agency has effectively denounced the US Food and Drug Administration’s ...
Marijuana Ban in Public Housing Lifted in NYC—And Nation May Be Next
Do you support reversing some of these provisions?,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York ...
The Year Is 2020, and the US Has Banned Vapes. What Happens Now?
President Donald Trump finished his overture at this year’s Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin ...
Bolsonaro Cuts Harm Reduction, Escalates Drug War
Largely unreported in English-language news media, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has pulled the plug ...
“Denver’s Just the First Domino”—City Dramatically Decriminalizes “Magic” Mushrooms
On May 7, the city of Denver, Colorado voted on a ballot initiative to ...
Sri Lanka President Uses Easter Attacks to Fuel Duterte-Inspired Drug War
For Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena, the War on Drugs and the War on ...
Why Worldwide Drug Policy Progress Is Driven From the Ground Up
In many places across the world, progress toward harm reduction, decriminalization and legalization is ...
