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RT @Filtermag_org: It's "a win for harm reduction, safeguarding cigarette alternatives that FDA acknowledges 'offer greater benefits to pop…
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RT @HarmReduction: 🧵South Dakota may be taking small steps away from the so-called "#WarOnDrugs," more accurately described as a war on peo…
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RT @Filtermag_org: Two harm reduction sites in South Africa, which have been serving 5,000 people with help from USAID, are among the many…
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RT @NannyFreeState: I've written at @Filtermag_org about how the @US_FDA's authorisation of #Zyn nicotine pouch products is a big step in t…
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It's "a win for harm reduction, safeguarding cigarette alternatives that FDA acknowledges 'offer greater benefits to population health than risks.' It also highlights absurd contradictions in FDA’s overall approach," writes Martin Cullip @NannyFreeState:
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Two harm reduction sites in South Africa, which have been serving 5,000 people with help from USAID, are among the many shut down. “I owe my HIV-negative status to their efforts,” says one participant. @TanaGaneva reports:
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RT @brish_ti: Two stories this week in @Filtermag_org that tell the story of where Canada is headed for drug policy: 1) Island Health pun…
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RT @Filtermag_org: Knoxville City Council voted in favor of the police department applying to the Tennessee Opioid Abatement Council for a…
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RT @Filtermag_org: "It’s smoke and mirrors, and optics to make it look like you’re taking something seriously," said @NickBoyce416 of @CAN…
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RT @Filtermag_org: Dr. Jess Wilder was placed on administrative leave in January. Island Health said only that there had been concerns over…
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Dr. Jess Wilder was placed on administrative leave in January. Island Health said only that there had been concerns over her recent advocacy. By @brish_ti:
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RT @Filtermag_org: Robert Veverka ran a cannabis/harm reduction magazine. Convicted in 2021 in a case of "gross censorship," he's still fig…
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Knoxville City Council voted in favor of the police department applying to the Tennessee Opioid Abatement Council for a $1.75 million grant to expand its “co-responder” program, reports @A_Lekhtman:
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"It’s smoke and mirrors, and optics to make it look like you’re taking something seriously," said @NickBoyce416 of @CANdrugpolicy. "We don’t need a 'fentanyl czar.' We need a drug policy czar to actually critically appraise drug policy." By @brish_ti:
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RT @sarahlsinclair_: As someone who also edited a cannabis magazine for several years @veverka_robert's story felt very close to home. I'm…
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RT @UnCagedCritique: my latest article with @Filtermag_org: The Prisons Crisis Lawmakers Want to Fix Is “Inmate-on-Staff Sexual Assault” h…
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Robert Veverka ran a cannabis/harm reduction magazine. Convicted in 2021 in a case of "gross censorship," he's still fighting for justice, he tells @sarahlsinclair_. "Prohibition is the real crime. That’s my power, the force which helps me to go on."
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RT @HarmReduction: 🧵Any movement away from the so-called "#WarOnDrugs" is important & worth noting, including pardons for people w/ drug co…
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Sexual harassment of staff by prisoners does happen, but despite the sponsors' rhetoric their legislation is thinly justified. By @UnCagedCritique:
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RT @Filtermag_org: “There was a smoke burning in the ashtray when her lungs collapsed.” Eric lost his mother, stepfather and grandmother w…
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