Overdose antidote Narcan skyrockets in price.

500% increase in the past two years.

After 14 of his patients died of overdoses.

Here’s an idea: ban every physician from prescribing heroin-based painkillers.

Vaping.

Mass hysteria in town councils and halls of Congress, over small clouds of water vapor, is hampering the rapid demise of cigarettes.

Dinosaurs of prohibition refuse to accept their extinction

Fox host actually makes the most cogent case possible for the legalization of heroin, which is the economic case.

Fox host Kennedy: “So, this is obviously sad and tragic, the fact that opioid overdoses have increased in recent years. But I don’t think the problem is that FedEx and UPS and the postal service need more screening tools. I think the problem is that heroin is illegal. And so people go to nefarious means in order to get a drug they would get anyway. […]

If you legalize these things and people have access to them and may know what’s in them, do you think knowing the ingredients in a drug you’re taking increases or decreases the chance that you will overdose on it?”

The abstinence-only, pro-drug war attitude is what birthed the opioid epidemic that resulted in 60,000 deaths just last year.  Instead, offer addicts a clean, regulated product with known potency, rather than the black market poison that’s killing them in droves.  The legal product would be fentanyl- and carfentanil-free, saving the thousands that die from those deadly additives alone.

How about we look to Amsterdam for a fine example of how to handle drug use, where you can sample cannabis, magic mushrooms, or peyote in the many cafes that adorn the city.

75% drop in drug cases since the 1990s, and a 95% drop in drug-related HIV infections.

Average time behind bars has increased by 5 years from 2000 to 2014.

This guy would win.

He had 54 times the legal limit of THC in system.  But then again, does pot really impair the ability to drive?

Defying “conventional wisdom”.

According to WHO.