“A Major Win”: Brazilian Drug Reform Advocates On Lula’s Re-Election
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News of the re-election of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for the fourth time has rippled across the…
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Charges Dropped Against The Drug User Liberation Front
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British Columbia’s Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray’s decision to throw out the charges against Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, the…
Angel Dust Memories: True Tales of PCP in North America
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The dissociative drug PCP, better known as angel dust, has fascinated me for years. It wasn’t always that way. Initially,…
FDA Hearing on Psychedelics: Concerns, But Overwhelmingly Positive
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Last week, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public hearing on the potential future use of psychedelics.…
Study Finds Psychedelic Decriminalisation Linked to Improved Wellbeing and Reduced Harm
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A newly published community survey of individuals who use psychedelics suggests that local decriminalisation efforts are overwhelmingly associated with perceived…
SR-17018 and the DEA’s ‘Scorched-Earth Campaign’ Against Novel Opioids
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The US Drug Enforcement Administration is waging what critics describe as a “scorched-earth campaign” against a growing class of obscure…
The Alberta Recovery Model: The Trojan Horse of Privatised Drug Treatment
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When the United Conservative Party (UCP) government took power in the Western Canadian province of Alberta in 2019, harm reduction…
Getting High on Perfume in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
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It was already around 2:30am – but the party was just getting started in the favela of Rocinha in Rio…
Compassion v Criminalisation: DULF Awaits Verdict in Canada over Safe Drug Supply
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On 24 July, final arguments concluded the Drug User Liberation Front‘s (DULF) trial challenging Canada’s constitution. If they win, this…
How Drug Checking Services Around the World Navigate Prohibition
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Amidst an ever turbulent political environment in North America that has all but written off harm reduction and drug checking…
“There Will Be Rollback’: Colombia’s New Right-Wing Government is Coming for Coca
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In December 2025, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declined Bolivia and Colombia’s request to reclassify the coca leaf – a…
Washington D.C.’s Crackdown on Unlicensed Cannabis Shops is a Warning for Underground Networks
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Over the past 18 months, Washington, D.C. has escalated its law enforcement crackdown on unlicensed cannabis shops and the illegal…