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WASHINGTON — Five states will vote next week on whether to join the 21 states and territories that have legalized recreational marijuana for adults. But the federal government is still stuck on whether to remove the plant from Schedule I of the federal drug code — a category reserved for…

The U.S. policy debate has focused on whether more research is needed on potential benefits and harms of marijuana.

Xylazine is contaminating the drug supply, causing grisly injuries and death

This week, an annual drug use survey Monitoring the Future (MTF), conducted by scientists at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor 

As David Hodes first noted in The Green Market Report, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s growing interest in psychedel

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report revealing that the most common substances for which adult Americans have sought substance misuse treatment in 2019 were alcohol, cannabis, and a combina

How does occasional cannabis use affect our health? A frequent question, for which there is no simple and conclusive answer. The impact on our overall physical and mental health has yet to be fully researched. The federal status of cannabis as a Schedule I drug severely limits scientific studies on this…

As states legalize marijuana, some as long as 10 years ago, many are beginning to realize the public health and safety implications of a variety of new high-potency products

New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevented show that synthetic opioid use is still driving the overdose crisis in the U.S.

More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another tragic U.S. record

Georgia joins the list of states decriminalizing the use of fentanyl testing strips as the drug’s scourge spreads