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Horrific images are reaching every corner of the world: police violence, chaos, and ever-growing rows of bodies. This is the situation in the favelas of Rio…

While cannabis is now legal in almost half the country, thousands are still arrested in other parts of the United States simply for carrying weed. In…

“Cannabis is dangerous.” “Weed leads you to other drugs.” “Marijuana opens the door to harder substances.” How many times have we heard these claims, without clear…

86% of drug researchers have used substances at some point in their lives, with 47% admitting to using them in the past three months, a 2024…

States with cannabis legalization policies experience reduced prescription drug expenditures for small group insurance markets, according to research Updated last week in the journal Health Economics.…

The Justice Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced on June 18 a 10-count superseding indictment, charging Los Angeles-based individuals linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa…

The American Medical Association (AMA) voted to support drug decriminalization recently on June 12. During the AMA’s annual House of Delegates meeting that was held in…

Harrison Narcotics Act  The Harrison Narcotics Act was signed by then-President Woodrow Wilson on Dec. 17, 1914 and took effect on March 1, 1915, establishing a…

Police seized nearly five tons of methamphetamine in Fiji, equivalent to more than $2 billion in Fijian dollars (approximately $886.2 million USD). The first Jan. 14…