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crystal methamphetamine (Creative Commons)

If we want to address the overdose crisis, we have to look beyond fentanyl and the opioids.

South Dakota's Badlands. The state is a pretty bad land for drug users, too. (Creative Commons)

South Dakota is doing some really nasty things in the name of the war on drugs.

Sapo sage Peter Gorman cruising the Amazon (sapoinmysoul.com)

Sapo isn't a psychedelic, but the Amazonian toad venom has some powerful and cathartic effects.

Nine billion dollars later, Afghanistan's opium production rolls on undaunted. (UNODC)

How many billions will go down the drain before we figure out we can't spend our way into making certain drugs disappear?

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While the culprit appears to be black market THC vapes, states are responding by banning flavored pot and nicotine vapes.

South Dakota's Badlands. The state is a pretty bad land for drug users, too. (Creative Commons)

Drug testing toddlers, felony ingestion charges, overcrowded jails and prisons, racial disparities -- South Dakota has it all.

Mt. Hood, outside Portland (Creative Commons)

The groundwork is being laid to put a possible initiative on the 2020 ballot.

The federal prison in Gilmer, WV. Oscar Sosa's home for the next quarter-century, unless he wins on appeal. (BOP)

A public defender's failure to object in a timely fashion to prosecutorial misconduct cost Oscar Sosa dearly.

Okay, it's not like historic 4/20 days in Boulder, but pot is popular on these campuses. (Creative Commons)

As students head back to college this fall, here are some of the most pot-friendly campuses in the country.

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Marijuana legalization may not be dead this year in the Garden State after all.