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Drugs policy

July 2024

  • Close-up portrait of Jeni Larmour

    UK universities urged to end drugs zero tolerance and focus on harm reduction

    Report proposing new approach welcomed by mother of Jeni Larmour, who died after taking alcohol and ketamine

June 2024

  • A worker inspects flowering cannabis plants

    Republicans use cannabis smell complaints as ‘excuse’ to oppose legalization, advocates say

    Norml argues lawmakers exaggerate scent complaints to support policies banning public use of marijuana
  • A worker cleans a colorful amusement park ride

    California to welcome cannabis for sale and consumption at state fair

    Annual event in July will be first US state fair to feature on-site marijuana dispensaries and competitions

    • The Audio Long Read
      From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people? – podcast

    • US woman faces up to 30 years in prison over bong water: ‘It’s just so wrong’

    • The DEA plans to reclassify cannabis. What does that mean for local dispensaries?

April 2024

  • Russell Newcombe

    Other lives
    Russell Newcombe obituary

    Other lives: Drugs expert who tried to persuade governments to focus on harm reduction rather than trying to eradicate narcotics use
  • Ecstasy pills in a man's hand

    MDMA trials are showing it has promise as a psychiatric medicine

    Letters: Readers respond to a letter which said that MDMA is not helpful in mental health care

    • The long read
      From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people?

    • Drug checking service opens at Sydney injecting room but NSW still blocking festival pill testing

    • Queensland’s first festival pill-testing service finds ‘Canberra ketamine’ sold as MDMA

March 2024

  • Niko Vorobyov

    Synthetic opioids have arrived in Britain. As a former drug dealer, I know how the UK should respond

    Niko Vorobyov
  • A syringe and pills

    UK ministers knew of ‘significant’ synthetic opioids threat two years ago

  • Lee Harris at the Alchemy shop in London in 2016, the year it closed

    Other lives
    Lee Harris obituary

  • A man uses the Compact FTIR Spectrometer pill testing machine during a demonstration event at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, September 17, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

    Fresh calls for pill-testing after suspected drug overdose death at Victorian music festival

  • Oregon undoes groundbreaking drug decriminalization law

  • California wants to force people into mental health care. Advocates say it will backfire

February 2024

  • Sodium valproate (Epilim) medication.

    Women must be told of sodium valproate risk to unborn babies

    Letters: Readers respond to an article on how the epilepsy medication was prescribed to pregnant women despite the known risks

January 2024

  • Drug testing at The Loop

    ‘Landmark moment’: UK’s first regular drug testing service to open in Bristol

  • A middle-aged female recovering addict stands by a row of filing cabinets.

    Euro visions
    ‘It beats getting stoned on the street’: how Portugal decriminalised drugs – as seen from the ‘shoot-up centre’

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