social justice

The Time to Build an Equitable Psychedelic Landscape Is Now

Across the United States, a tide is turning. It is becoming clear that widespread legal access to psychedelic medicines will…

May 28, 2026

“End the Nightmare”—Coalition Hits DC for Cannabis Justice

A national coalition of 41 advocacy groups converged on Capitol Hill for the Cannabis Week of Unity, when a coordinated…

May 18, 2026

GOP Lawmaker to Benefit Recipients: Quit Medical Marijuana and Cheetos

A GOP congressman is peddling a stigmatizing message to justify a new bill on adding work requirements for certain federal…

February 28, 2025

San Joaquin County, CA, to Vote on Drug-Testing Public Benefit Recipients

Voters in San Joaquin County, California, are about to decide if people on public benefits should be drug-tested under threat…

October 24, 2024

Socialist Presidential Candidate Talks Harm Reduction and the Drug War

On a sunny day in Milwaukee, I drove downtown to interview a presidential candidate. The city has buzzed with political…

September 20, 2024

What Will Javier Milei Mean for People Who Use Drugs in Argentina?

Argentina has just experienced a political earthquake. On November 19, Javier Milei, a rightwing self-described “anarcho-capitalist,” won a runoff election…

November 29, 2023

Mexico’s Abortion Collectives Increase Cross-Border Collaborations

When Perla Martínez took misoprostol to terminate her pregnancy in April of 2017, the only information she had about how…

July 5, 2022

“A Million Experiments”⁠—Leading Abolitionists Outline Roadmap to #DefundPolice

Amid an unprecedented mainstream debate over disarming and disbanding police, leading abolitionists published a tool guide to conceptually clarify the…

June 17, 2020

The Impact of Restored Voting Rights for 140,000 People With Convictions in Kentucky

On December 12, newly-elected Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) signed an executive order to restore voting rights to 140,000 people…

December 18, 2019

Bringing the Worker Co-Op Revolution to Legal Weed

It turns out that folks would rather be the CEO of a dollar than the co-owner of one thousand dollars,”…

November 13, 2019