illegal drugs
A New Report Shows the Price and Use of Australia’s Favourite Drugs
According to the report, weed is the drug of choice. Who would've thought?
The US Postal Service Wants to Hunt Down Dark Web Criminals
The US Postal Inspection Service is looking for people to conduct investigations on the dark web, as well as those who can gather defensive-focused intel too.
The Thin Line Between 'Bad Drugs' and Medicine
Medical anthropologist Danya Glabau is teaching a class in how the discourse around drugs has changed.
Why Do So Many Women Keep Dying At This Music Festival?
Four women have died at Britain's BoomTown Fair festival in five years. A drug policy reform advocate speaks out.
Soldiers on a Nuclear Base Are in Trouble for Allegedly Doing Blow
Fourteen airmen at a nuclear missile base are under investigation for allegedly using illegal drugs, coke among them.
An Australian Court Has Provided a New Defense for Drugged Driving
Joseph Carrall was booked for driving nine days after he'd smoked a joint. A New South Wales court then found him not guilty, saying he'd made an "honest and reasonable mistake of fact."
I Tried to Quit Smoking with Magic Mushrooms—and It Worked
A recent study concluded that giving up smoking with the help of psilocybin has an 80 percent success rate. Conveniently, "Stoptober" and mushroom-picking season perfectly intersect, so I thought I'd give it a go.
Is the NYPD Overstating the Dangers of 'Weaponized' Marijuana?
Bad batches of synthetic marijuana are being blamed for violent outbursts in some users, but at least one researcher says most who try it do not have violent reactions.
Bad Pills Warning After a British Teen Dies at a Music Festival
Eighteen-year-old Christian Pay died at Kendal Calling after taking a pill.
The Canadian City Fighting Back Against Its Deadly Fentanyl Problem
A disturbing number of people in Sarnia, Ontario, are abusing a powerful painkiller that is 100 times stronger than morphine or 40 times stronger than heroin
The Death Stats That the British Government Is Using to Ban Legal Highs Are Total Bullshit
The government wants to blanket-ban legal highs after an influential Christian think tank pushed shonky stats about their death toll.