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Meet Gabor Maté, a doctor who works with North America’s only supervised injection site and believes that addicts are some of the happiest people he knows.

The New England Journal of Medicine recently released research showing that the recent introduction of the reformulated version of OxyContin is linked to increases in heroin use.

A deadly May raid brought the impact of the drug war on local communities in Honduras into the global spotlight.

Here are some good reads about one of our favorite subjects.

Because basement and garage chemists can tweak the formulas to create similar, legal drugs, we may be entering an endless loop of prohibition.

More Americans and local politicians than ever before are demanding an end to marijuana prohibition -- but for change to happen, we need federal officials to start listening.

The Mexican drug cartels crave money, but they make that money from the way Yankees across the border crave numbness. They sell unfeeling. We buy it.

A study finds that the “gateway drug†effect is in fact accurate, but shifts the blame away from marijuana and onto the most pervasive and socially accepted drug: alcohol.

What the U.S. government is doing in Colombia has not slowed drug trafficking, but rather, created millions more victims through fumigation and displacement.

With "Savages," a hallucinatory and violent pot saga, the director returns to the days of "Natural Born Killers"

Comparing marijuana use with child rape? Growing laws that turns patients into felons? These anti-pot absurdities completely defy logic.

Missing from US-conducted analyses is a discussion about the international legal system – as embodied in the three international drug control treaties.

Big Pharma gets a Big Fine. Will it be enough to prevent future criminal behavior?

More of us than ever are discontented and not experiencing optimum emotional well-being. Why is the vast enterprise of professional mental health unable to help us feel better?

The DEA classifies marijuana as having no medical uses, but a government-sponsored study concludes that the miracle drug is much needed for many patients.

While the drug war is not a laughing matter, comedians are often able to capture the absurdity and insanity better than policy papers and traditional journalism.

A massive, Xanax-fueled public health crisis driven by chronic employment worry is headed our way.

Anybody who thinks that weed makes parents ignore their children has clearly never been high around one.

If it's legal to use in soaps – and even to eat – then why is it illegal to grow here?

Americans aren't as divided over politics as the pundits say. But they disagree on everything else.