With medicinal cannabis legal in the majority of states and more and more legalising recreational use, opportunities now abound for a wide variety of new entrepreneurs and established big business.
Naomi Arnold takes another look at our alarming death rate from synthetic cannabinoids and at some real-world responses from people working at the frontline.
Get an update on Canadian drug policy at our AGM, from leading scientist Professor Benedikt Fischer who very recently arrived in Auckland from Toronto.
Ruth Dreifuss and Helen Clark of the Global Commission on Drug Policy speak about the responsible control of drugs
The Drug Foundation is teaming up with over a dozen organisations to support the Ministry of Health in developing a coordinated response to the synthetics crisis
New Zealand’s recent deaths from synthetic cannabinoids are deeply tragic and should never have happened. A report released yesterday by the Global Commission on Drug Policy shows how they’re also, sadly, part of a repeated pattern of harm
Learn about recommendations from the Global Commission on Drug Policy in it's new report "Regulation: the responsible control opf drugs"
The report into HNZ’s response to "methamphetamine contamination" contains hard lessons for the government and its agencies. The harms caused by HNZ’s zero tolerance approach were more widespread than previously thought.
Worried about meth contamination? Should you test for meth resudue, and what if a test comes up positive? And what does it mean for your insurance? We have some answers