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Neil deGrasse Tyson has become the new face of science across the United States, taking up the mantle from the late astrophysicist Carl Sagan. He appears frequently on television to talk about science, as Sagan did. He hosted an updated version of the television series, "Cosmos," originally...

The drugs used to treat cancer after surgery can help to slow disease progression, but they don’t always stop cancer cells from spreading to other parts of the body, nor do they help with pain associated with some cancers such as sarcomas (rare bone cancers). There is a drug, however, that...

While a high-profile case is under way at the Pretoria High Court regarding the legalization of marijuana, we spoke to a few international experts at the Drug Policy Week conference to get their views on this controversial topic. Dr. Raquel Peyraube, Clinical Director of ICEERS and Advisor...

A cannabis dealer was caught out by the smell of his stash after police carried out a routine stop of his car. Aiden Smith was found with bagged up drugs, scales, and three mobile phones when police recognised the strong smell of skunk and searched his car. He was with a friend whose...

U.S. voters have an idea of what might actually improve society and make America great again: legalizing weed. A Harvard-Harris Poll survey released Monday found a majority of voters–some 57 percent–thought making marijuana legal across all 50 states would make society better, and 69 percent...

One thing about Jeff Sessions, the boy is focused. A horrible marijuana plant must have done something mean to Sessions when he was a child, for the attorney general has a serious black & white TV-era reefer madness obsession. Sessions is hell-bent on re-fighting the failed war on drugs...

Fingerprints found on a package containing drugs led police to a man in Dewsbury who had been dealing in cannabis, a court heard. Police officers executed a search warrant in May 2014 at a house where the occupier's boyfriend had left drugs in a shoe box. Among the items found was a...

Almost every media report on marijuana legalization at the state level references the fact that cannabis remains listed as a Schedule I illegal drug in the U.S. In another words, despite 29 states legalizing medical marijuana and eight states legalizing adult-use marijuana, the United States...

Cannabis is still the most common drug ''by a country mile'' found when staff are tested, farmers attending a workshop in Ashburton last week heard. Therese Gibbens, general manager of the Canterbury West Coast area for The Drug Detection Agency, said 80% of positive drug results from tests...

The Trump administration’s tough talk on marijuana is creating an unusual alliance: pot smokers and the conservative Koch political network. Mark Holden, one of the influential network’s top leaders, decried President Donald Trump’s administration for returning to the “harsh sentencing era of...

Cannabis should be legalized across Europe to allow law-enforcement authorities to concentrate on more serious crimes than the trafficking of soft drugs, Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor says. "This office reiterates ... the need to concentrate the state's crime-fighting resources on more...

A big issue involving medical marijuana has emerged in the past year: Many people prefer using marijuana for their condition rather than opioids. Former NFL and NBA players have come forward to say that both leagues should allow players to at least try marijuana for pain management, given the...

An effort in Arizona to legalize recreational marijuana failed last year. Insys Therapeutics helped make it happen. The drug maker donated $500,000 to an organization that opposed a marijuana legalization proposition. It makes sense that Insys would be against marijuana legalization. The...

There's a great moment in the new History Channel miniseries, America's War on Drugs, when a former DEA agent named Celerino Castillo explains why America's crusade to purge drugs from the world is doomed to fail: "America is more addicted to drug money than they are addicted to drugs." After...

For the first time in U.S. History, more Americans died in 2016 of drug overdoses than were killed in the Vietnam War. Let that sink in. Last year's death toll in the War on Drugs was 59,000 killed, while during the entire Vietnam War, 1955 to 1975, 58,220 American service members' lives were...

While American foreign policy has for years fixated on the conflict in Syria and the Middle East, just across the border in Mexico and throughout Central America tens of thousands of people lost their lives last year because of the conflict between drug cartels competing to deliver illicit drugs...

Older Australians are using illicit drugs at higher levels while teenagers are smoking, drinking and using illicit drugs less. New data, which challenge popular perceptions of drug use, show the proportion of people in their 40s who’ve used illicit drugs over the previous 12 months has risen 2...

Britain's Liberal Democrat party is calling the war on drugs a "catastrophic failure". The Liberal Democrat's manifesto for the 2017 General Election is calling for legalization of marijuana. The manifesto claims the shift would benefit the country to the tune of £1 billion in tax revenue...

Whatever The claims about Taiwan being a progressive nation, differing from neighboring Asian countries, drug policy is an issue where Taiwan is far from progressive. And indeed, in may respects, the Tsai administration's drug policy is revealing of the sharply conservative undercurrent which...

President Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has ordered federal prosecutors to seek maximum penalties for drug-related crimes. This is both cruel and stupid. It's cruel because Session's 5,000 prosecutors must now push for long jail sentences even for people who pose no violent threat...