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Uncovering cycles of moral panic: Drug crises often trigger waves of moral panic, leading to punitive measures. Historians show how these cycles—like those seen with the crack epidemic and the War on ...

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Lawrence: Addiction is a public health problem, and the regulation of addictive products and services is a major public ...

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Five years after he created LSD in a lab on this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann accidentally underwent the first acid trip in ...

With the increased legalization of recreational cannabis, as many as 1 in 5 pregnant women in the U.S. are now using the drug ...

Cannabis use causes cellular damage that increases the risk of highly cancerous tumors, according to a new paper published in ...