MAPS Founder speaks with psychedelic research advocates about psychedelic science, MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, and the prospect of making psychedelics legally available for medicinal purposes during a panel discussion at the 2015 International Drug Policy Reform Conference.
Civil society organisations denounce the absence of harm reduction in the first draft of the UNGASS outcome document represents a step backwards from previously agreed language.
VICE discusses the shortfalls of the soon-to-be enacted Psychoactive Substances Bill, including how it could push the drugs market further into obscurity.
The Executive Director of Ghana's NACOB discusses the need for the country to create a legal framework for the provision of opioid substitution therapy.
In the build-up to the UNGASS on the world drug problem, West African leaders want to chart a new course in the fight against drugs, amidst consensus that the current war on drugs has failed.
Medical marijuana advocates made their case at the Legislative Assembly in San José, an Alajuela lawyer got off the hook for growing pot on his roof, and the Public Security Ministry announced a two-metric-ton marijuana seizure in Limón.