Chronicle Magazine Review: The Baffler, No. 74, Altered States
Our first-ever magazine review. This smart and scrappy rag has earned it.
Executive Branch
A bill to allow therapuetic psilocybin service centers to operate has passed the legislature in Arizona. (Creative Commons)
MD Mass Marijuana Pardons, AZ Therapeutic Psilocybin Bill Goes to Governor, More... (6/17/24)
Tens of thousands march for marijuana legalization in Sao Paulo, the Biden administration rolls out grants for mental health and substance abuse needs, and more.
Methamphetamine. The US Sentencing Commission has a new report on meth sentencing and purity. (DEA)
House GOP Kills Marijuana Provisions in Spending Bill, Federal Meth Sentencing Report, More... (6/14/24)
Marijuana legalization is dead in New Hampshire this year, a California initiative to "fix" voter-approved sentencing reforms qualifies for the November ballot, and more.
Mississippi medical marijuana patients will be able to make fewer visits to the dispensary now. (Creative Commons)
White House Opposes Ban on Pot Testing Military Recruits, MS MedMJ Patients Catch a Break, More... (6/12/24)
New York's legal marijuana retailers will be able to permanently put on farmers markets--if the governor signs the bill--and more.
The MDMA molecule. (NIDA)
FDA Panel Rejects MDMA for PTSD Application, But Recommendation Is Not Binding [FEATURE]
The Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee had doubts approving a treatment program that uses MDMA in psychotherapy as a treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Advocates are dismayed and say it's a lifesaver.
A hospital emergency room. A new bill aims to provide guidelines for fentanyl testing at ERs. (Pixabay)
US Sentencing Commission Seeks Your Input, Bipartisan Senators File Emergency Room Fentanyl Testing Bill, More... (6/5/24)
A New Jersey poll finds majority support for therapeutic psilocybin, the White House has been busy on the harm reduction front this week, and more.
Kratom. The state of California is moving to regulate -- not prohibit -- it. (Project CBD)
CA Kratom Regulation Bill Advances, VT Governor Vetoes Safe Injection Site Bill, More... (6/3/24)
Customs and Border Patrol has cut the period of acceptable last marijuana use for recruits from two years to 90 days, the federal defense bill is the locus of several drug policy-related amendments, and more.
Libyan militiamen posing with seized drugs and prisoners. A clash with smugglers in the desert left three Brigade 444 members dead. (Brigade 444)
Biden DOJ Moves on Marijuana Rescheduling, UN Says Afghan Opium Production Plummets, More... (5/16/24)
Prohibition-related violence leaves three militiamen dead in Libya and 11 villagers dead in Mexico, and more.
Chronicle Book Review: The Suburban Crisis
Trying to deal with car culture kids in the post-World War II Los Angeles suburbs laid the groundwork for the war on drugs.
The CDC says drug overdose deaths are now declining, but there were still more than 107,000 fatal ODs last year. (Creative Commons)
Drug OD Deaths Decline for First Time in Five Years, DEA Cases Continue to Fall, More... (5/15/24)
Opium production is seeing a resurgence in conflict-riddled Myanmar, Nebraska medical marijuana petitioners reach a preliminary milestone, and more.