News Feature

That's enough fentanyl to kill you. It killed thousands this year. (dea.gov)

The good, the bad, and the ugly in the world of domestic drug policy this year.

The number of drug overdose deaths remains unconscionably high.

Multi-drug combinations prove particularly deadly.

The sun rises on a new chapter for hemp in America (votehemp.org)

Marijuana's lanky, straight-laced country cousin is about to get legal.

meet the law of unintended consequences (Creative Commons)

The black market always has an answer. Too bad this one is so deadly.

Magic mushrooms could be decriminalized under the Oregon Psilocybin Service Initiative (Wikipedia)

Signature-gathering for 2020 is about to get underway.

Meth or cotton candy? Georgia cops couldn't tell the difference. (Creative Commons)

Cops said their roadside drug test said it was meth. It's far from the only time the cops or the test has been wrong.

The grinch who stole sentencing reform. (Creative Commons/Gage Skidmore)

The president had endorsed a reform bill, but that didn't matter to Mitch.

mexico marijuana flag_3.jpg

The US is about to become the only one of North America's three largest countries not to have legalized marijuana.

Jeff, we hardly knew ye. (senate.gov)

His vision was firmly rooted in the failed drug war of the last century.

Jair Bolsonaro (Creative Commons)

Brazilians elected Jair Bolsonaro, "the Trump of Brazil," as their next president on Sunday. He has promised to murder drug suspects as Duterte does.