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Bill to End War on Drugs Full of Potential Pro-Pot Policies For most, there is little doubt that the War on Drugs is an indisputable failure. It has taken an excessive amount of money, manpower, and lives with little to show for it besides one of the worst drug epidemics in... Learn More

Global Commission on Drug Policy Suggests Harm Reduction and Decriminalization Author: Justin Mckibben The Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP) is an international institution of global leaders and intellectuals working to help study and inform initiatives on addressing drug use all around the world. This think tank offers recommendations concerning... Learn More

Philippine Drug War: Stigmatic Murder? Author: Justin Mckibben The War on Drugs in America has definitely proven to have been extremely counter-productive to actually saving the lives of Americans and improving the state of the nation concerning addiction, overdose death and other effects caused by... Learn More

Is Dangerous Drug Flakka Really Gone? Author: Justin Mckibben Flakka, the infamous “$5 insanity” that surfaced nearly 2 years ago and flooded the news with the impending doom it seemed to add to the already corrosive drug scene, has seemingly dissipated to the point of practical... Learn More

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month Author: Shernide Delva While April 1st may be more recognized as April Fool’s day, you may not know that today is also the start of something deeper than that. The entire month of April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and... Learn More

Will the New CDC Painkiller Guidelines Reduce the Risk of Addiction? Author: Shernide Delva In an effort to curb what many consider to be the worst public health drug crisis in decades, the CDC has issued a series of guidelines and restrictions intended to reduce the abuse of prescription painkillers. On... Learn More

Opioid Alternatives: Should Doctors Weigh Other Options? [caption id="attachment_19051" align="aligncenter" width="340"] (This content is being used for illustrative purposes only; any person depicted in the content is a model)[/caption] Author: Shernide Delva Over the last decade, the increase in opiate painkiller abuse and heroin abuse has been... Learn More

Humans of New York Photos Highlight Victims of Drug War [caption id="attachment_18980" align="aligncenter" width="429"] (This content is being used for illustrative purposes only; any person depicted in the content is a model)[/caption] Author: Justin Mckibben I remember a while back when I first started writing for the Palm Partners blog... Learn More

Over 75% Of High School Opioid Users Also Use Heroin [caption id="attachment_18473" align="aligncenter" width="428"] (This content is being used for illustrative purposes only; any person depicted in the content is a model)[/caption] As we know, the opioid epidemic has spread across all communities. Furthermore, the epidemic has reached high school... Learn More

Ben Carson Blames Drug Addiction on a Lack of ‘Values and Principles’ Author: Shernide Delva Despite medical science that reveals that drug addiction has a biological component and should be treated as an illness, Ben Carson believes that drug addiction is due to a lack of “values and principles.” Ben Carson, instead,... Learn More

Bernie Sanders Proposes Bill to End Federal Ban on Marijuana Author: Shernide Delva Marijuana reform continues to be a major topic in the presidential campaign and this week, Bernie Sanders went farther than any presidential candidate in supporting marijuana and the fight to end the War on Drugs. Bernie Sanders... Learn More

International Harm Reduction Conference 2015 Author: Justin Mckibben This past October the 24th International Harm Reduction Conference 2015 was held in Kuala Lumpur, and many accounts showed how there was some serious differences in the way drug policy is handled around the world, but it... Learn More

Bill to End War on Drugs Full of Potential Pro-Pot Policies

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