Politics + Legalization

    Health Canada Keeps Admitting That Its Vape Policies Could Increase Smoking

    On June 19, Health Canada, the agency responsible for the country’s health policy, released ...

    Connecticut’s Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization Protects Youth, Students

    The Connecticut bill signed into law on June 22 legalizing, taxing and regulating cannabis ...

    Congresswoman Cori Bush Voices Groundbreaking Support for Safe Supply

    Congresswoman Cori Bush, representing St. Louis, Missouri in the House of Representatives, has broken ...

    First All-Drug Decriminalization Bill to Be Introduced in Congress

    On June 15, ahead of the 50th anniversary of Nixon’s declaration of the “War ...

    Poll Shows Huge Public Opposition to “War on Drugs,” After 50 Years

    At a press conference on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared “drug abuse” ...

    Bill Would Finally Let Researchers Obtain Marijuana From Dispensaries

    A congressional committee plans to vote this week on a bill that would allow ...

    Will China Bring Vapes Under the Country’s Tobacco Monopoly?

    At the end of March, China said that it would soon regulate vaping products ...

    Ex-FDA Head Falsely Claims Kratom Is “Fueling” the Overdose Crisis 

    Drug warriors have long deployed disinformation to justify panics and crackdowns. Kratom, an unregulated ...

    At the US E-Cigarette Conference, a Reckoning With Loss of Public Trust

    The future of tobacco control is up for grabs. Nowhere was this more apparent ...

    Drug Decriminalization Bill Advances in Maine—With Splits Over Details

    A joint Maine House and Senate committee on Tuesday advanced a bill to broadly ...