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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, President Donald Trump, and media personality Joe Rogan attend an executive order signing regarding psychedelics on Saturday, April 18, 2026. (Photo Illustration by Salon / Allison Robbert / For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's psychedelic love is about Iran

Russell Payne
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Win McNamee / Justin Sullivan / National Archives)

Trump’s cannabis order was just for show

Russell Payne
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / DON EMMERT / Spencer Platt / Michael Siluk / UCG / IkonStudio)

We can't bomb our way to fewer overdoses

Kassandra Frederique, James Saenz
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc)

Why Mitch McConnell killed the hemp buzz

Russell Payne
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Trump doesn’t grasp his own drug war

Troy Farah
Narcan and fentanyl test strips are available for free at the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Fighting Trump’s harm reduction cuts

Niko Vorobyov
SAN YSIDRO, CA - MARCH 21, 2025 - - Members of the U.S. military stand in front of the border wall along the U.S. and Mexico border near San Ysidro on March 21, 2025. The U.S. Border Patrol and members of the U.S. military held a press conference to address the strengthening of the U.S./Mexico border with new barriers and concertina wire to stop the flow of migrants from entering the U.S. (Photo by Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Trump’s border war won’t stop overdoses

Melody Glenn
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte takes an oath as he attends a senate probe on the drug war during his administration, in Manila on October 28, 2024. (Photo by JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Duterte’s drug war wasn’t about drugs

Niko Vorobyov
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LEWISVILLE, NC - March 11: Susan Stevens shows off a prescription for Suboxone her daughter Toria filled the day before she died at her home in Lewisville, NC, Monday, March 11, 2019. Stevens lost her 22-year-old daughter Toria to an opioid overdose last year after years of her daughter struggling with addiction following a violent sexual assault. (Photo by Eamon Queeney/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Medicaid cuts may worsen overdose deaths

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A Mexican soldier stands guard next to marijuana packages outside a tunnel discovered at a warehouse in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, near the border with the US on November 26, 2010. (FRANCISCO VEGA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s war with cartels will backfire

Niko Vorobyov
Bolivia, La Paz: Women in typical costumes distribute coca leaves on coca chewing day. Photo: Radoslaw Czajkowski/dpa (Photo by Radoslaw Czajkowski/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Groups demand: "decolonize" coca leaves

Niko Vorobyov
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in front of the Federal Prison Medical Center in Lexington Kentucky. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

No evidence drug farms treat addiction

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
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Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) (Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The world’s most charismatic mushroom

Niko Vorobyov
A teddy bear sits in a therapy chair in front of a child suffering from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). (Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Behind $2 million per dose gene therapy

Robin Fields - ProPublica
In hand cigarette filled with cannabis (Getty Images/Anastassiya Bezhekeneva)

No, cannabis doesn't cause schizophrenia

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Close-up of an elderly man pouring out a pill from a medicine bottle. (Getty Images/Jacob Wackerhausen)

Is a new painkiller too good to be true?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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A Man from Pasi community (a Dalit or untouchable community of India) serving toddy (Palm wine), a traditional alcoholic drink made from the sap of palm trees. (Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Lessons from Bihar, India's booze ban

Niko Vorobyov
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will Trump go after harm reduction?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Ecstasy tablets, with an imprint of the country of Australia (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Australia has embraced psychedelics

Niko Vorobyov
Therapy appointment with a teenage patient (Getty Images/fotostorm)

The link between trauma and addiction

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Passing a joint at a house party (Getty Images/ sturti)

Study challenges "gateway drug" theory

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Cannabis leaves, pharmaceutical MDMA, and pink cocaine (aka Tussi) (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The drugs that defined 2024

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Women walk through a war-torn neighborhood in Omdurman on November 2, 2024. (AMAURY FALT-BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Sudan civil war: Fueled by meth

Niko Vorobyov
In this photo illustration, Elizabeth Snouffer, whose had type 1 diabetes for most of her life, displays her insulin capsule which she needs to take daily on March 02, 2023 in New York City. (Illustration by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The biohackers who make DIY insulin

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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