Even in a Year of Massive Reforms, Racist Myths Pervade the Drug Policy Debate
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The war on drugs is deeply unpopular. 2021 looks to continue to be a pivotal year for reform. Nineteen…
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Drug Policy, Law Enforcement, and The Monetisation of State Violence in Brazil
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As copaganda thrives under prohibition, the different ways that the state apparatus of violence exercises its power and profits from…
The U.S. Counties Where Psychedelic Mushrooms Grow
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Moves towards psilocybin decriminalisation in the US have helped make this mushroom foraging season more magical than usual. Mushroom…
The Removal of the Ecuadorian Drug Possession Table: A Major Government Mistake
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At the end of August, the Minister of Government, Alexandra Vela, announced that the Ecuadorian government will propose to the…
Criticism of Awakn Treatment Model as Second Clinic Opens for Treating Addiction
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Emerging pharmaceutical companies are promising revolutionary treatments for substance misuse based on the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA), in…
Why are social media giants censoring life-saving information?
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In early August, the Instagram page of Pill Report, one of the most popular social media pages advocating for responsible…
Ecuador Takes Giant Steps Towards Cannabis Legalisation
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In December 2020, the Ecuadorian Assembly approved the medicinal use of cannabis in Ecuador, a milestone for a conservative society.…
Big Pharma Seizes Brazilian Market While Medical Cannabis Bill is Stalled
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On 8 June, after five long years, the Special Commission of the Brazilian Lower House of Parliament gathered to discuss…
Alex Gibney’s “The Crime of the Century” – Manufacturing The Opioid Crisis In America
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After his prominent documentaries ‘Going Clear: Scientology’, ‘Agents of Chaos’ and the recent ‘The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon…
Former Brazilian Health Ministers Call For The End of Involuntary Commitment of Minors to Therapeutic Communities
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On August 4, seven former ministers of health who served under presidents Lula, Dilma Roussef and Jair Bolsonaro published a…
“Undoing Drugs”—Maia Szalavitz’s Profound History of Harm Reduction
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In 1986, HIV/AIDS was burning through New York. The city’s gay population was devastated, and, though it was talked about…
US Syringe Exchanges Are Still Under Attack (Part 2)
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>> Read Part 1 here. The fate of a harm reduction organisation in Atlantic City, New Jersey is up in the…