Politics + Legalization

Alaska Campaign to Legalize Psychedelics Is Gathering Signatures

Alaska activists have officially launched a signature drive to place an initiative on the 2026 ballot to legalize certain psychedelics…

September 25, 2025

WHO Review: Coca Not Harmful, Prohibition Is

The consumption of the coca leaf in its raw form by millions daily across the Andes carries no significant risks,…

September 23, 2025

SAMHSA Awards Opioid Response Grants Amid New “Strategic Priorities”

On September 22, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced the recipients of the 2025 state and…

September 23, 2025

DEA Bans More Fentanyl Analogs, Months After Class-Wide Scheduling

On September 18, the Drug Enforcement Administration permanently added seven fentanyl-related substances (FRS) to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances…

September 18, 2025

7-OH Did Not Cause the LA Overdose Deaths (Neither Did Kratom)

On September 12, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) announced that 7-Hydroxymitragynine had been linked to three…

September 17, 2025

Corrections Departments Winning Imaginary Fight Against “K2 Exposure”

In 2021, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department published body-cam footage of a deputy who collapsed after coming into contact…

September 16, 2025

Texas Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge to State Rejection of Local Marijuana Decrim

The Texas Supreme Court has declined to take up an appeal of a case concerning the state’s overturning of a…

September 16, 2025

Massachusetts AG Certifies Ballot Measures to Recriminalize Adult-Use Marijuana Sales

The attorney general of Massachusetts has certified and prepared summaries for dozens of proposed 2026 ballot initiatives—including a pair that…

September 5, 2025

Europe’s “Huge Breakthrough” in Access to Psychedelic Therapies

After almost three decades of psychopharmacological research—and having treated thousands of psychiatric patients with psychotropic drugs like antidepressants and antipsychotics—Dr.…

September 3, 2025

Overdoses Should Be Termed “Prohibition-Related Deaths”

Another International Overdose Awareness Day arrives on August 31. It’s a time for us to reflect once more on a…

August 29, 2025