The Australian parliament passed new national laws today paving the way for the use of medicinal cannabis by people with painful and chronic illness. […]

Marijuana legalization advances in Vermont; medical marijuana advances in Connecticut, Australia, and Canada; Eric Holder says it’s time to reschedule marijuana, Obama says restricting pain pills won’t solve the opioid crisis, and more. […]

The Australian drug expert who pioneered the nation’s first legal injecting centre has put himself on a collision course with the Baird government and NSW Police by vowing to break the law and roll out pill testing at Sydney’s forthcoming music festivals. […]

One state Labor MP, Member for Summer Hill Jo Haylen, is bucking the party line and calling for change. […]

News Corp reports Federal leader Richard Di Natale and Queensland Senator Larissa Waters will tell a national drug summit that ice addicts should be able to use the drug without facing police action. […]

A B.C. Supreme Court decision allowing staff at a Vancouver addiction clinic to prescribe heroin is producing positive results, and advocates want to see the program expand across the country. […]

Federal Greens leader, Senator Richard Di Natale, has reiterated his calls for Australia to introduce testing of illicit drugs. […]

As hospital admissions for ecstasy and MDMA use soar in Australia, the chilling stories of festival overdoses are failing to stop young people risking their lives. […]

The War on Drugs has proven to be “a failed and counter-productive strategy”. […]

Not only is what Australia doing not working, we’re falling behind the rest of the world and what evidence says is best to ensure we have fewer deaths from illicit drugs. […]