Disposable nicotine vapes are still being sold by retailers in the United Kingdom, even though they were recently banned. This was widely predicted by tobacco harm reduction advocates and others, but ...

Troops appeared on the streets of Washington, DC, on the night of August 12. The previous day, President Donald Trump had announced he was placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under federal ...

A federal judge has ruled that a Utah-based faith group that uses psilocybin mushrooms as sacrament can move forward with its religious-rights lawsuit against local officials. On August 4, Judge Jill ...

I n March 2024, lack of government funding led to the closure of The Spot, the only overdose prevention center (OPC) in the Northern Ontario city of Sudbury. The Spot had opened its doors in 2022, in ...

A lack of transparency, recipients including law enforcement and geographic disparities in allocations are among the issues.

Seven years in the making, a searchable database of California law enforcement misconduct and use-of-force reports is now available to the public. The free database contains records from close to ...

On August 5, the Department of Justice published a list of so-called “sanctuary jurisdictions” that it claims are in violation of federal immigration law. United States Attorney General Pamela Bondi ...

Oklahoma activists officially started signature gathering for a 2026 ballot initiative to legalize adult-use marijuana in the state on August 6—and the campaign has hundreds of retailers, primarily ...

Oklahoma Activists Step Up Bid to Put Marijuana Legalization on 2026 Ballot Oklahoma activists officially started signature gathering for a 2026 ballot initiative to legalize adult-use marijuana ...

Alexander is Filter’ s staff writer. He writes about the movement to end the War on Drugs. He grew up in New Jersey and swears it’s actually alright. He’s also a musician hoping to change the world ...

Pouches Close Sweden’s Tobacco Harm Reduction Gender Gap Sweden’s use of the oral tobacco product snus has led it towards becoming the ...

Mattha is a journalist with a focus on health policy, drugs/psychedelics and (sub)culture. His work has appeared in the Guardian, VICE, Rolling Stone, WIRED, TIME and Men’s Health. Based in Lisbon, ...