PsychedelicsAustralia Legalised MDMA and Psilocybin – Where Are the Patients?Tori Rudkowsky.Oct 16, 2024Over a year ago, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Association (TGA) made the surprise decision to legalise MDMA and psilocybin-assisted therapy…
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Drug PolicyDenmark’s Drug Laws Highlight the Limits of Harm Reduction PolicingTobias Kammersgaard.Oct 7, 2024When Denmark made it possible for municipalities to implement drug consumption rooms (DCRs) in 2012, Copenhagen was quick to establish…
Drug Harm ReductionOther DrugsDrug Checking Tusi is a Headache for Harm ReductionistsFrancesca Brivio.Sep 30, 2024Tusi, a mostly pink powder with a sweet aroma, has become an intriguing phenomenon in the modern party scene. At…
Drugs & DevelopmentPersonal Stories“We are here to break this silence”: Activists Disrupt AIDS Conference In Support of PalestineAndré Gomes.Sep 24, 2024Just as the 25th International AIDS Society (IAS) conference was happening in Munich in July, protestors took over the stage…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug TraffickingOther DrugsAlpha-PVP And New Psychoactive Substances Surging Across EECA RegionNoor Vissram.Sep 20, 2024Alpha-PVP (alpha-PyrrolidinoValeroPhenone), also colloquially known as “flakka”, is a synthetic version of the stimulants known as cathinones, one of the…
Drugs & DevelopmentPsychedelicsFrom Demons to Medicine: Tracing The Journey of Colombia’s Psychedelic RegulationLevinson Niño-Leal.Sep 16, 2024In a nation whose modern history is defined by international interference, drug trafficking forces and a raging drug war, Colombia…
CannabisWhat Does the Future Hold for UK Cannabis?Michael Sassano.Sep 13, 2024After a recent conversation with Pierre van Weperen of Grow Group PLC and Grow Pharma, his vision of the United…
CannabisCan Zimbabwe Reach its Billion Dollar Cannabis Dream?Daniel Itai.Sep 11, 2024Zimbabwe is one of the few African nations hoping to make it big from the global cannabis boom. The Government…
Drug Harm ReductionGrief and Harm ReductionCamille Barton.Sep 9, 2024In 2017 I wrote an article for The MAPS Bulletin, called ‘The Elephant in the Room: The Need to Address…
CannabisDrug Harm Reduction“Cannabis Substitution Therapy”: Can Cannabis Ease Opioid Withdrawal?Mattha Busby.Sep 5, 2024Rosie Rurka had a reputation as the frontline drugs worker who brought people back from the dead with naloxone after…
Drug TraffickingOpioidsOther DrugsUnder the Radar: Are Nitazenes More Prevalent Than Known?Phoenix Mohawk.Aug 30, 2024Nitazenes, a class of synthetic opioids, are increasingly found everywhere. While (still) relatively obscure, detections of these opioids have been…