Tag: Drugs
Why do so many Americans now support legalizing marijuana?
Amy Adamczyk, City University of New York; Christopher Thomas, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Jacob Felson, William Paterson University
American views on marijuana...
El Chapo trial shows why a wall won’t stop drugs from...
Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong
The trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera has exposed just how powerful Mexico’s cartels really...
Drug shortages pose a public health crisis in the US
Sharona Hoffman, Case Western Reserve University
On June 12, the American Medical Association announced that drug shortages pose an urgent public health crisis. This crisis...
What Jeff Sessions doesn’t understand about medical marijuana
C. Michael White, University of Connecticut
On Jan. 4, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole memo, a 2013 document that limits federal enforcement of...
The opioid epidemic is finally a national emergency – eight years...
Erin Winstanley, West Virginia University
“It has been many long, hard, agonizing battles for the last few years and you fought like a warrior every...
The D.A.R.E. Sessions wants is better than D.A.R.E.
Paul Boxer, Rutgers University Newark
Americans of a certain generation will remember this mantra from the 1980s: Just say no.
This simple phrase was the...
Pot with patents could plant the seeds of future lawsuits
Craig Nard, Case Western Reserve University
It’s hard to make sense of cannabis regulation.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) continues to categorize marijuana as a Schedule...
Ella Fitzgerald’s flirtation with reefer songs
Adam Gustafson, Pennsylvania State University
“The First Lady of Song” Ella Fitzgerald would have turned 100 on April...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
