Native to Southeast Asia, kratom is a plant and herbal medicine with mild opioid and stimulant-like properties. It was held…
On June 25, the United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published new draft guidelines encouraging health…
Nearly three years after Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that the nation’s marijuana prohibition is unconstitutional, it voted on June 28 to…
On June 4, Chandran Vithushan, a young man in Sri Lanka, was buried by his family. He had been arrested…
More roadblocks loom for Alberta’s safe consumption sites, as the provincial government sets new regulations for the facilities' operations. The…
By every measure, the global drug war has failed. It has failed to decrease drug use and sales. Drug-involved overdose…
All over the world, few countries are taking the trouble to monitor smoking prevalence among Indigenous populations, according to a…
Back in June 2020, the Dutch State Secretary for Health, Paul Blokhuis, announced that he wanted to ban all non-tobacco…
As part of a campaign to mark World No Tobacco day on May 31, the World Health Organization (WHO) has…
Tobacco use is a poor person’s problem. People with low incomes consume and grow it the most and suffer the…