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Filter launched in September 2018 and is based in New York City. Our mission is to advocate through journalism for rational and compassionate approaches to drug use, drug policy and human rights. Filter is owned and operated by The Influence Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. You can read about The Influence Foundation’s structure and funding here.
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FilterMag; Politics + Legalization “May Launch a Substitution War”—Trump’s China Tariffs and Fentanyl. In what feels like a rerun of an old episode, President-elect Donald Trump has ...
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Utah Sues Pharmacy Benefit Managers for “Central Role” in Opioid OD Crisis; White House Reviews Its Drug Control Strategy, Finds It’s Doing a Good Job
Despite Everything, More People Than Ever Choosing Safer …
Nov 26, 2024 · Kiran is a tobacco harm reduction fellow for Filter.She is a writer and journalist who has written for publications including the Guardian, the Telegraph, I Paper and the Times, among many others.Her book, I Can Hear the Cuckoo, was published by Gaia in …
How the FDA Made a “Gigantic, Chaotic Mess” of the US Vapes …
16 hours ago · T wenty-one years ago, a Chinese pharmacist named Hon Lik patented the first electronic cigarette. Lik smoked heavily, and hoped to help people quit smoking by giving them the nicotine they crave in a safer way.. His invention succeeded wildly. It spawned a $28-billion industry that is disrupting the global tobacco business. Leading tobacco control experts say that vapes have begun to reduce ...
DEA Ordered to Respond to Allegations It's Conspired Against …
1 day ago · A Drug Enforcement Administration judge has ordered the agency to respond to new allegations that it opposes the Biden administration’s marijuana rescheduling proposal that it is supposed to be defending, and that it had additional improper communications with opponents of the reform.. Just one day after a motion outlining the allegations was filed by several witnesses set to participate in ...
White House Reviews Its Drug Control Strategy, Finds It's Doing a …
Jan 2, 2025 · I n 2022 the White House Office of National Drug Control Strategy (ONDCP) published its first National Drug Control Strategy, which outlined seven goals to be achieved by 2025. On December 30, 2024, the ONDCP released the National Drug Control Strategy Performance Review System (PRS) Report—essentially a progress update on the Biden administration response to the overdose crisis between 2020 ...
Rescheduling Hearings Begin: Not About If Marijuana "Good or …
Dec 2, 2024 · T he first Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hearing on the Biden administration’s cannabis rescheduling proposal took place on December 2, with proponents and opponents appearing for a largely procedural meeting to prepare for more substantive hearings in 2025.. The judge overseeing the proceedings made clear that the hearings are not meant to determine “whether marijuana is good or ...
Why I Report on Tobacco Harm Reduction - filtermag.org
Dec 17, 2024 · T obacco harm reduction, which I’ve been covering as a journalist for a couple of years now, has often felt a strange space to work in. Polarizing, compassionate, full of justified hope, yet often dispiriting. Beset with hostility and falsehoods, yet fascinating.People who smoked cigarettes and then found tobacco harm reduction (THR) often talk about their “journey.”