Viewpoints: So should naloxone become more accessible in New Zealand?
In the US, opiates cause thousands of overdose deaths each year. Making naloxone more readily available here would widen the safety net for overdose victims.
Decriminalise cannabis, decriminalise Māori?
That Māori are more often criminalised for cannabis use is often used as another good argument for decriminalisation. Hirini Kaa argues things are more complex than that.
Guest editorial: Towards global drug policy pathways that work
The Global Commission on Drugs proposes a new drug control regime for the 21st century. The experience of what regulation means in practice is informing policy, as Steve Rolles explains
Face Trashed
Alcohol marketing on social media is cheap, successful and legal. But researchers say New Zealand should be attempting to control marketers’ sophisticated digital strategies.
Doing LAPs
With few Local Alcohol Plans (LAPs) in place, communities are forced into being reactive when faced with new applications for liquor licences.
Shulgin was known to many as the “Godfather of ecstasy”
Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin was born on 17 June 1925 and died, aged 88, at home in California on 2 June 2014.
May 10 2014
Medical cannabis report disappointing
A report on medical cannabis published yesterday by the Health Select Committee is a disappointing once-over glance at a medicine that is of increasing importance globally, the New Zealand Drug Foundation said.
May 7 2014
Amnesty period needed for 'legal high' possession
Police should hold off prosecuting people for possession of psychoactive products for the next six months, the New Zealand Drug Foundation urged today.
About a drug: NBOMe
While LSD is often painted as the psychedelic equivalent of a tie-die t-shirt, the new, nefarious n-bomb is portrayed as a potent potion of peril.