NEW from Sam Quinones on Substack: Mennonites, Drug Trafficking, and Measles (LINK)
Proposal to restrict location of marijuana advertisements in Detroit moves forward (LINK)
USC study sheds light on nationwide naloxone awareness and use (LINK)
Dear Florida lawmakers, while you needlessly reinvent the wheel on hemp regulation, kids are being poisoned (LINK)
Why has Mexico handed over drug cartel leaders to US? Who are they? (LINK)
Organized Crime and Opioid Relapse: The Deadly Side of Canada’s Safer Supply (LINK)
How Virginia is becoming more like California and New York: All have unlicensed cannabis stores (LINK)
Bad psychedelic trips linked to early death for some, study finds (LINK)
Idaho lawmakers look to ‘go on offense’ to limit possible drug legalization initiatives (LINK)
‘Rapid expansion’ of synthetic drugs reshaping illicit markets, UN anti-narcotics body warns (LINK)
‘Santa Clause’ star David Krumholtz ‘almost died’ from smoking pot: ‘No one talks about’ how ‘dangerous’ it is (LINK)
Not quite a Shirley Temple | Opinion (LINK)
A first-of-its-kind apartment complex for people in addiction recovery is now open [CO] (LINK)
‘It’s packed with dealers. Look around you’: life amid the cocaine cartels of the French Riviera (LINK)
Is kratom addictive? New federal study aims to find out (LINK)