Ballot initiatives across the country suggest we’re finally starting to change the tide in the war on drugs—and undo the damage it's caused.
Ballot initiatives across the country suggest we’re finally starting to change the tide in the war on drugs—and undo the damage it's caused.
Psychologist and author on the myths of the opioid "epidemic," and why it's time to ask Americans to be adults
San Francisco likes to think of itself as on the cutting edge of everything. If it’s smart and compassionate public policy, the thinking goes, it probably started here. But any quick walk ...
Partial returns showed strong support among voters for Measure 110, a coup for the New York-based Drug Policy Alliance, the same criminal justice reform group that backed Oregon’s ...
Letters: Cocaine deaths need to be understood in the context of austerity, writes Woody Caan – while a group of NGO leaders argue that development policy must take account of the disastrous ...
The drug on which people spent the most changed over a decadelong period.
The push to relax drugs laws is gaining momentum globally, with Oregon becoming the first state to decriminalise. But what would a legalised market in the UK actually look like?
In 2006, drug users spent more on cocaine than on heroin, marijuana or methamphetamine. By 2016, marijuana expenditures had exceeded the other drugs.
Some drugs classified as highly dangerous are less harmful than alcohol or tobacco
By making dependency on hard drugs a public health issue — instead of a criminal one — Oregon could help end the war on drugs
From dangerous new synthetic drugs to a growing love of psychedelics, this is how our drug use could transform over the coming decade
While other cities are jailing drug users, Seattle has found another way.