New York Opens First Safe Injection Sites in the US
Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:59:46 GMT
The sites open as more than 100,000 Americans died in a one-year period due to fatal overdoses.
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The US Is Finally Getting a Safe Injection Site
Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:59:46 GMT
The two sites will open in New York City and come as more than 100,000 Americans died in a one-year period due to fatal overdoses.
Read moreCops Made ‘White Boy Rick’ a Drug Snitch at 14. Now He’s Starting a Weed Brand.
Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2021 13:30:19 GMT
Richard Wershe Jr. spent more than 30 years in jail after he says police turned him into a snitch and abandoned him.
Read moreCops Made ‘White Boy Rick’ a Drug Snitch at 14. Now He’s Starting a Weed Company.
Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2021 13:30:19 GMT
Richard Wershe Jr. spent more than 30 years in jail after he says police turned him into a snitch and abandoned him.
Read moreEx–Teen FBI Informant ‘White Boy Rick’ Is Starting a Weed Company
Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2021 13:30:19 GMT
Richard Wershe Jr. spent more than 30 years in jail after he says police turned him into a snitch and abandoned him.
Read moreEnding Eviction Moratoriums Means More Drug Users Will Die
Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 15:04:52 GMT
Evictions can displace people from trusted dealers, forcing them to buy drugs from random sources in a market flooded with fentanyl.
Read moreBiden Criticized for Supporting a ‘Misguided’ Plan to Poison Colombia’s Coca Fields
Credit to Author: Steven Grattan| Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:55:52 GMT
Colombia insists the aerial spraying of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, is the best option in the war on drugs. More than 150 experts say it can cause serious health problems and environmental destruction.
Read moreLiberals’ Justice Reform Bill Keeps War on Drugs Alive, Policy Experts Say
Credit to Author: Rachel Browne| Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 21:23:47 GMT
While harm reduction experts applauded Justin Trudeau’s plan to remove mandatory minimums, they were also concerned the bill still reinforces harms associated with drug criminalization.
Read moreCop Budgets Benefit from Cannabis Legalization, Sparking Backlash in ‘Defund the Police’ Era
Credit to Author: Chris Roberts| Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:49:33 GMT
Politicians have long used earmarks for police budgets as a way to make legalization more digestible to opponents. New Jersey’s attempt to legalize in 2020 shows that is no longer working.
Read moreDuterte Labels Drug War Critics Malevolent Predators Who “Ooze Blood”
Credit to Author: Max Daly| Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:10:21 GMT
President of the Philippines used his inaugural United Nations speech to lash out at human rights campaigners who are in the line of fire in the country’s war on drugs
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