On October 16, a legal national market for cannabis opens in Canada, as a result of the Canadian Parliament’s June…
Last week Color of Change—a nonprofit racial justice organization—launched a tool that no other group has yet managed to create:…
Last year, for the first time in 11 years, black people had the highest rates of drug overdose in New…
The Ohio Board of Pharmacy (BOP) has proposed that the active compounds in kratom—a recreational herbal supplement—be classified as a Schedule…
Two landmark reports about drugs and harm reduction have been released in the past few weeks: Regulation: The Responsible Control…
President Trump has just penned an op-ed for USA Today, in which he rants against Bernie Sanders' "Medicare-for-all" plan, claiming that "The…
On October 6 the chief minister of the northern Indian state of Punjab, Amarinder Singh, accused neighbor Pakistan of strategically trafficking heroin…
“That can’t be right, marijuana is legal here.” It's a common refrain from would-be cannabis entrepreneurs, initially filled with enthusiasm—only…
On September 24 the Global Commission on Drug Policy—a heavyweight group co-founded by Richard Branson and including former presidents and prime ministers…
Twenty-five years ago, when I started working on tobacco control at a government policy level, the politicians used to reject…