It’s unacceptable for humanity to demonize a sacred medicinal plant. It was more of a political decision than a scientific ...

When the celebrated Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh died of methanol poisoning this month, everyone but his country’s most ardent theocrats recognized that prohibition was the problem. Yet when the ...

If you remember headlines about angel dust and crack, you know that drug panics are nothing new. From time to time an intoxicating drug is rediscovered or newly synthesized, or old ones are consumed ...

EARLIER THIS WEEK, ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC Holder announced that the federal government would continue to prosecute marijuana-related crimes even if Proposition 19, a California ballot proposition for ...

The emergence of the animal tranquilizer xylazine as a fentanyl adulterant has prompted law enforcement officials to agitate for new legal restrictions and criminal penalties. That response is ...

The Korean War is ongoing, despite no shots fired in roughly 70 years. The destructive U.S. invasion left more than 3 million dead, many of whom were civilians, with major conflict ending in 1953 — ...

From 1920 to 1933, the drug known as alcohol was outlawed, and Americans were prohibited from manufacturing, transporting or selling that particular drug. And when our leaders repealed that ...

Telangana's crackdown on drugs results in record seizures, over 7,000 arrests, and rising convictions between 2021 and 2025.