In Canada, The Fight for Compassion Clubs Rages On in Court
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An upcoming ruling from Canada’s Federal Court could have a radical impact on the country’s drug laws. In 2021, Drug…
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Junkies Don’t Exist
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I’ll never forget the time a relative casually called me a “junkie,” as I organised my collection of drugstore makeup…
How Gender Affirming Care Is Harm Reduction
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The nature of the trans experience for me, and many, is of being forcibly politicised from a young age. Our…
UK Harm Reduction: The Origins of Release
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As drug policy concerns become progressively more salient and relevant to a much larger and increasingly global population, interested people…
Good Business Skills Aren’t Respected In Cannabis
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Business is everywhere. I have always been fascinated with the concept of Business ever since I was a young boy:…
“We Want Recovery” Female Sex Workers Using Drugs in Burundi
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Women tend to be a drug using group that often is less served or face higher barriers of access to…
The Problem With Viewing Addiction As Inevitable
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I won’t deny that accepting the one real inevitability in life (i.e., that all mortals must eventually die) is philosophically…
A Bright Success in Overturning Death Penalty in Malaysia
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One of the longer, if not the longest, case of a death row sentence landed on Dobby’s lap. Chong Yun…
Generation Next: How Youth-led Organisations Refresh Global Drug Policies
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The corridors of global policy discussions have been, for the most part, off-limits to the younger generation. This exclusionary practice,…
Dope Men: How We Went From Alcohol Prohibition to Another
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Just past midnight on April 7th 1933, a truck pulled up to the White House filled with beer. President Roosevelt…
Defining Recovery Beyond Sobriety
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A note before I begin: recovery is a personal and loaded concept. This essay isn’t intended to be a definite…
Brain Boosters Unleashed: Cognitive Enhancers Use Among University Students
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In today’s highly competitive academic landscape, an increasing number of Western university students turn to cognitive enhancers such as Ritalin…