Singapore's Supreme Court sentenced a man to death via Zoom video chat on Friday, according to a report from the Strait Times. It's believed to be the second time that a death sentence has been handed down this year over the video service, which has seen a dramatic increase in use since the global coronavirus pandemic began earlier this year.
For Afghan meth makers, the wild ephedra bush has been a game-changer, breathing life into a new, troubling industry.
A case report suggests that CBD oil contributed to someone's death. Some scientists — and the weed industry — aren't so sure.
The comedy legend talks about the Cheech & Chong reunion, God, politics and, of course, weed.
There's extreme social shame around doing drugs, and yet the underground drug scene is thriving in Tokyo.
People on both ends of the drug supply chain discuss how often they're buying drugs in quarantine, extra safety precautions and the impact of coronavirus on trade.
Amateur sleuths attempt to guess what drug random strangers are taking.
From a weak pulse to bluish skin, here are some of the symptoms that happen when a person experiences an opioid overdose.
Entrepreneurs are hoping psychedelic drugs will follow marijuana's path to the lifestyle industry, but medical researchers aren't so sure that's a good idea.
If luxury THC granola, weed aperitifs and CBD pillows couldn't make me into a stoner, nothing can.
From alcohol to amphetamines, a new book shows intimate links between the policing of substances and the waging of war.
When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, she didn't want chemo. Instead, she tried every other potion under the sun.
Virginia is the 27th state to decriminalize or legalize marijuana.
The federal agency cites concerns that the widely-used antacid may contain a possibly cancer-causing contaminant called NDMA.
Here are the facts on hydroxychloroquine, which the president has promoted despite little evidence that it works against the coronavirus.
Ballot campaigns and cannabis bills get pushed aside during public health crisis.
Based on a compound discovered in 1998, the antiviral Favipiravir is already being used in Japan and Turkey. Its maker? A subsidiary of Fujifilm.
In college, Adderall gave me a sense of focus that felt sublime. Then I OD'ed.
War correspondent Toby Muse reports on the human stories behind the drug's passage across Colombia, from coca leaf pickers and jungle chemists to cartel sicarios and speedboat smugglers.
How a fearsome, fast-talking union boss helped legalize pot, took kickbacks and ended up in prison.
Most Russian drug dealers don't hand off drugs anymore — they stash them in geotagged hiding spots ready for pickup by online buyers.
The US government is offering a $15 million award for information leading to Maduro's arrest.
Even as company pharmacists protested, Walmart kept filling suspicious prescriptions, stoking the country's opioid epidemic. Trump's people condoned it.
A variety of drugs — previously developed for malaria, Ebola and HIV — are being tested for COVID-19.
The stockpiling has become so worrisome that pharmacy boards in many states have issued emergency restrictions on how the drugs can be dispensed.
Long-term contraceptives could be used to treat people with Ehlers-Danos syndromes.
iPledge, a government compliance program, makes the barrier to obtain Accutane unreasonably high, especially for women of color.
A close look at why this old malaria drug is promising for Covid-19.
When it comes to taking hallucinogenic drugs, context may matter in deeper ways than previously assumed.
During the coronavirus pandemic, 12-step meetings are being moved to video chats. Here's how one person in recovery is coping.
Even though depression is a common and debilitating mental illness, the last groundbreaking medication released for it was Prozac, approved in 1987.
In Silicon Valley, burnout is real. It happened about four years into a job at Google for Adam*, who is now a senior software engineer at the company. To get through it, he turned to an increasingly popular strategy in tech: microdosing.
It has been 11 years since the FDA approved aripiprazole for children with autism. The drug initially had a reputation of having fewer side effects than its competitor — but a decade's worth of data suggest that is untrue.
From hippies attempting to levitate the Pentagon to the "10-Guy" meme, here's our list of the stupidest drug-related incidents of the last century.
Big Marijuana is coming. What does that mean for the future of weed in America?
Big Marijuana is coming. What does that mean for the future of weed in America?
"I probably should've been scared, but I wasn't."
Simply sitting in a cinema to watch a movie can expose people to the equivalent of one to 10 cigarettes' worth of secondhand smoke, according to a new chemical analysis.
The most promising medical solutions to the coronavirus show us what's wrong with our approach to outbreaks.
A participant might commit months or years to a drug trial, only to see it vanish overnight.
Mike Greenblatt knew he had to be prepared for Woodstock, but there was nothing that could prepare him for the trip he actually embarked upon.
Over four separate nights, I took ecstasy, ketamine, valium and cocaine and monitored my heart rate, sleep, steps and number of calories burned.
Bloomberg gave media advice to the Sacklers and recommended his longtime mayoral spokesman to them. The relationship could shadow his presidential bid.
Venture capital arrives for psychedelics.
The Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs published three case reports of women who recreationally took large amounts of LSD, one of whom took 500 times the usual recreational dose. The women say the acid trips contributed to their wellbeing.
Approximately one in four people with diabetes are using less insulin than they need because of the cost.
Everything you need to know before taking the emergency contraceptive Plan B, also known as the morning-after pill, including common side-effects, where to buy it and how much it costs.
In the 17th century, English travelers, merchants and physicians were first introduced to cannabis, particularly in the form of bhang, an intoxicating edible which had been getting Indians high for millennia. Benjamin Breen charts the course of the drug from the streets of Machilipatnam to the scientific circles of London.
How a pioneering American CBD entrepreneur got himself into — and out of — a Burmese prison.
In rural Tennessee, health officials have embraced a strategy for stemming addiction: teaching children as young as 6 how to administer Narcan, a nasal spray that can stop an opioid overdose from being fatal.
Some see the heart medication as a miracle drug for public speaking fears, anxiety and panic attacks, but it's not without its risks.
Clifton Collins fears his fishing gear was taken to the dump by his landlord after he was jailed.
Around 10pm at a summer solstice party somewhere in Canada on June 20, 2000, about 20 people swallowed glasses of water mixed with the powerful psychedelic LSD. A decimal place error caused them to take way more of the drug than they thought they were getting.
A "union" called ProTech Local 33 says it has members in the billion-dollar Golden State weed trade. Problem is, it looks like a front group for bosses.
Two bioethicists explore the ecstatic (and thorny) future of chemical-infused relationship therapy.
The directors of Netflix's series "The Pharmacist" talk about our addictive personalities and what should happen to the people who unleashed OxyContin into the world.
What happens in your body when you take it?
Andy recently started investing in a company that tells people about telling other people about CBD, and there's nothing afoot at all.
In the 1950s, the yam was exploited by Boots for the production of cortisone. But conservation officials in South Africa fought back against the plundering of a wild plant in danger of extinction.
Students on Colorado State University's Pueblo campus will have the option to study cannabis beginning this fall.
