Jane* didn’t think much about the Sam’s Club salad she’d eaten days before she was to give birth in March…
South Africa has taken a big step toward decriminalization, or limited legalization, of cannabis. The country won’t be opening up…
As the United States continues to grapple with a devastating opioid-involved overdose crisis, conservative policymakers have seized on a familiar…
“Who here is a drug user?” asked Maurice Byrd, co-director of the Harm Reduction Therapy Center (HRTC) in San Francisco…
A group of Pennsylvania lawmakers spoke on September 22 about the path ahead for marijuana legalization in the state, emphasizing…
New York City cops are arresting far more people for drugs under Mayor Eric Adams—reversing what had previously been a…
On August 28, Chicago activists rallied at Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago, demanding that Illinois lawmakers take immediate action to…
The intent of Mississippi's lifetime voting ban for people convicted of certain crimes, written into the state constitution as Section…
St. Louis County, the most populous in Missouri, recorded a decrease in overdose deaths in 2022—the largest fall in the…
In the past month, the San Francisco Chronicle has published a series of articles ostensibly aimed at getting to the…