USA. 15-Year-Old Facing 40 Years After Allegedly Selling Fentanyl to Teen Who Died The girl, who was arrested in Wisconsin after an 18-year-old died of an overdose, was selling fentanyl to pay off a drug debt, according to court documents. (Vice,...

Kanada. B.C.’s drug decriminalization experiment starts today. Toronto and other jurisdictions are watching Toronto Public Health says it continues working with Health Canada on a revised version of its initial decriminalization proposal. VANCOU...

Podcast: Steve Rolles on Legalizing Drugs The notion of legalizing any sort of illicit drug seemed preposterous to most people just twenty years ago. Now cannabis is being legalized in a growing number of states and countries, psychedelic legaliz...

USA. New York’s Bill to Decriminalize Low-Level Drug Possession A New York senator has launched a bid to decriminalize all low-level drug possession in the state. If his bill becomes law, it would end arrests and jail time for possessing smaller ...

Kanada. BC Decrim Threshold Was Set for Police, Not People Who Use Drugs British Columbia is about to become the first Canadian province to decriminalize personal possession of some state-banned drugs—a move that media and government officials ar...

  Association of Recreational Cannabis Legalization With Cannabis Possession Arrest Rates in the US.  Gunadi C, Shi Y.  JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(12):e2244922. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.44922 https://jamanetwork.com/jou...