The president doesn't let reality get in the way of rhetoric. (Creative Commons/Gage Skidmore)
Trump BS Alert: The Border Wall Won't Stop Drug Smuggling [FEATURE]
The fabulist-in-chief was at it again.
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fentanyl... not marijuana (Creative Commons)
Don't Believe the Hype: "Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana" is a Dangerous Myth [FEATURE]
Cops and politicians have been raising the alarm about a problem that doesn't exist.
The long-operating InSite safe injection site in Vancouver (Creative Commons)
Supervised Injection Sites Could Be Coming Soon to California [FEATURE]
The controversial harm reduction intervention may win its first foothold in the US.
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Chronicle Interview: A Conversation With New DPA Head Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno [FEATURE]
The incoming executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance will have plenty of work to do.
Civil rights, human rights, criminal justice, and drug policy reform groups are mobilizing to stop a new drug war bill.
Chronicle AM: Groups Oppose New Fed Bill, Still no DEA Research Grow Licenses, More... (7/5/17)
Drug reformers and others are trying to stop a bill that would give Attorney General Sessions new powers to criminalize new drugs and craft new penalties, after a year the DEA still hasn't issued any new marijuana research grow licenses, and more.
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"Shocks the Conscience": South Dakota Forcibly Catheterizes Three-Year Old in Drug War [FEATURE]
It's barbaric enough that the benighted state subjects drug suspects to this treatment, but toddlers, too?
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Customs Seizes Childproof Marijuana Lock Boxes, Calls Them "Drug Paraphernalia" [FEATURE]
Rigid adherence to decades-old drug war protocols can have perverse consequences.
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America, We Can Fix This: 24 Ways to Reduce Opioid Overdoses and Addiction [FEATURE]
The science and evidence base is there. What is needed is the political will, and a little care.
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How Many States Will Legalize Marijuana This Year? [FEATURE]
Actually winning marijuana legalization via the legislative process is hard. We're close, but not quite there yet.
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Vermont Governor Vetoes Marijuana Legalization -- For Now [FEATURE]
The legislature was the first in the country to approve marijuana legalization, but the governor has issues.