British Columbia’s contentious experiment decriminalizing fentanyl, cocaine and other hard drugs was hailed by provincial ...

British Columbia's drug decriminalization policy was associated with a substantial decrease in police encounters for drug ...

Nearly 70,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2025. While that is a decline from the nearly 108,000 deaths recorded in ...

Politicians in British Columbia believed that legalizing the synthetic opioid, along with other hard drugs including heroin, ...

Over the past few years, drug policy reform has been on a tear. It looked as if the decades-long war on drugs was finally winding down. In the face of the most acute overdose crisis in our nation’s ...

Four years ago, Oregon voters approved a groundbreaking plan to decriminalize possession of all drugs in the state. That brief experiment is now set to come to an end. A bill signed into law by ...

Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in November 2020, which decriminalized the possession of all drugs, including cocaine, meth, and heroin. In February 2021, the measure went into effect. “Now, if you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three years ago, Oregon became the first state in the country to decriminalize illicit drugs. Now, it's becoming the first state ...

In a landmark decision, the American Medical Association (AMA) voted this week to support the elimination of criminal penalties for drug possession for personal use, marking a notable shift in the ...

People in Vancouver experienced an increase in police drug seizures during the first year of British Columbia's drug ...

Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Email (Opens in new window) In 2021, ...

The premier of British Columbia — a Canadian province that’s a mecca of open-air drug use and supervised injection sites — has admitted decriminalizing drugs was a mistake. “I was wrong on drug ...