In Sri Lanka, 2 grams of heroin can get you the death penalty. People incarcerated on drug charges are regularly…
Despite 8 million annual smoking-related deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) seems to have decided that it doesn’t have to…
Although Ukraine is often perceived as one of the least free countries in the world, it is more liberal than…
Mexico has never seemed so close and yet so far from fully regulating the adult-use cannabis market. A first Supreme…
On July 27, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its eighth report on the global tobacco “epidemic,” highlighting the “need to…
On July 16, Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that heated tobacco products (HTP), sometimes known as "heat-not-burn" products, will be exempted…
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…