The Marijuana Debate

Since the late 2000s K2, an extremely potent and deceptively cheap new drug also known as “spice,” has been wending its way into the systems of individuals across America. Between 2009 and 2015 calls to Poison Control Centers referencing...

Over the past several decades a curious link between psychotic disorders, like schizophrenia, and the use of cannabis (marijuana) has cropped up in research carried out across the globe. Some scientists have suggested that the active ingredient in cannabis,...

Kratom is not without risks, but those risks are two or three orders of magnitude less than the risks posed by prescription drugs.

States that legalize marijuana experience a prompt reduction in opioid addiction and overdose. And legalizing pot has other obvious benefits.

Pot deserves a lot more research and clinical consideration as a much lesser evil relative to opioids and as a potential benefit in a variety of clinical situations.

Pot is widely used for a wide variety of medical problems, but there is this big disconnect because research on marijuana has been so tightly restricted.

One hundred years later, we are finally learning the foolishness and futility of our failed pot prohibition policies.

Trying to criminalize pot has been a colossal failure in the past and is likely to stimulate, not contain, the increasing use of dangerous synthetics.

The NFL is a serial practitioner of drug hypocrisy. It tightly controls relatively harmless pot, but condones dangerous opioid use.

As more and more states legalize it for medical indications, a number of addiction treatment programs are using pot as a substitute for people addicted to opioids.