A driver eats a cannabis gummy, waits a while, gets behind the wheel and returns a low THC reading. Surely that settles it? A new randomised trial says it does not. Cannabis edibles and driving do not follow the tidy rule that a small number in the blood means a clear head. That rule matters...
A significant boost in addiction prevention funding is heading to communities across the United States after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed a $77 million package of grants designed to strengthen prevention, treatment, crisis response and mental health services nationwide. The announcement was made through HHS’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...
The United States is edging closer to a decision on the case for rescheduling cannabis. Yet the strongest evidence against that move may be coming from an unexpected source: the federal government’s own paperwork. Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek Julius is preparing his recommendation in the marijuana rescheduling proceeding. Dr Heidi Overton, meanwhile, awaits Senate...
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy has joined forces with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Together they have launched a new treatment first toolkit. Officials announced the resource on 12 August at the San Diego Rescue Mission. It marks a real shift...
President Donald Trump has proclaimed August 2026 as National Substance Use Primary Prevention Month. The proclamation calls on schools, families and faith communities to unite behind one goal. That goal, in short, is stopping addiction before it ever begins. Substance use prevention sits at the heart of the message. It is framed as the clearest...
Prisoners in England and Wales are getting a new kind of vape. The Ministry of Justice designed it with manufacturer MOJA. Its goal is simple: stop prison vape fires caused by high powered devices circulating inside jails. Minister Reveals a 43 Per Cent Drop in Fires According to a written parliamentary answer, justice minister Lord...
Brisbane is under six years from lighting an Olympic cauldron. Yet the loudest voice shaping how the city gets ready is not a sports scientist or a public health strategist. It is Bernie Hogan, chief executive of the Queensland Hotels Association. His flagship ask is 24 hour alcohol trading across the state. In a recent...
The federal marijuana rescheduling hearing has closed after twelve days of testimony. The closing witnesses left behind a sobering record. Rather than building a case for marijuana as ordinary medicine, the cannabis rescheduling case exposed a different picture. Witnesses described uncontrolled products, unresolved psychosis risk and a persistent link to organised crime. A recommendation from...
What Belgium’s cannabis crisis reveals about organised crime, human nature and the limits of political ambition. What Belgium’s cannabis crisis tells us about the oldest mistake in politics ? Justin Trudeau promised that legalising cannabis would keep the drug away from children and take profits away from organised crime. Eight years later, Belgian customs officers...
A long-standing gap in American drug law was finally closed in November 2025, in a move campaigners have hailed as one of the most significant public health developments in years. As part of a federal funding package passed that month, ending a government shutdown, lawmakers inserted language that shut down the so-called hemp loophole once...