The Aesthetics of Drug Prohibition and Harm Reduction
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The Opioid Crisis Lookbook, (OCL) is the provocative title of a magazine started in 2022. Even without reading the magazine…
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How International Drug Policy Is Increasingly Fragmented
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For many years, international drug policy seemed stuck in tired rhetoric about a ‘drug-free world’. International discussions repeatedly called for…
UNGASS: 10 Years of Failing International Drug Policy Progress
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The world is losing the global war on drugs, and it is losing it badly. This is the core message…
Donroe Doctrine: What Is the Logic Behind Trump’s Drug Strategy?
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The first year of Donald Trump’s scandalous second term in the White House has seen some historic changes in drug…
Jackson, Michigan Designates Psychedelics as Lowest Law Enforcement Priority
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On Tuesday, December 16, the Jackson, Michigan City Council passed a resolution to deprioritise the enforcement of laws against the…
British Columbia Abandons Decriminalisation Policy Despite Promising Data
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On 14 January 2026, British Columbia (B.C.) announced it would end its limited decriminalisation policy and reinstate criminal penalties for…
Orphines: A Rising Group of Synthetic Opioids
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For the past decade, the world has seen an unprecedented explosion in synthetic drug production and distribution, particularly of synthetic…
Canada’s Rise in Police-Reported Drug Offences is Not So Simple
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In October 2025, Statistics Canada released a report highlighting the country’s police-reported drug offences. Noteworthy among its findings was that…
How Bolivia’s Legal Coca Industry Challenges Drug Prohibition
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In Rio Blanco, a village perched on a mountainside overlooking a picturesque, tropical valley in Bolivia’s Yungas region, Crisologo Mendoza’s…
Dealing With Surveillance in Harm Reduction AI Tools
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have quickly become staple tools of the internet: unprecedented investments in this technology, appearing as chatbots,…
Experts and Cultivators Condemn WHO’s Failure to Reschedule Coca
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This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that the coca leaf remain a Schedule I substance within international…
Could Stimulant Replacement Therapy Reduce Cocaine and Stimulant Harms?
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Stimulant deaths around the world are on the rise. In the UK, the number of deaths involving cocaine is 11…