Everyoneโ€™s tough on drugs again

Traffickers are to blame, the candidates say. Virtually no oneโ€™s talking about treatment.

French lawmaker admits police caught him buying drugs

Andy Kerbrat of the New Popular Front said he will seek help for addiction following the news.

So long, no thanks to all the fash: review of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

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Doctors โ€˜fight like hellโ€™ against a second Trump term

Some see the politicking as a moral obligation, but others see a threat to the doctor-patient relationship.

Hunter Biden pleads guilty in tax case, avoiding trial after all

The presidentโ€™s son will be sentenced for tax evasion in December.

Who is Keir Starmer? Britainโ€™s incoming prime minister is complex, unknowable, aggrieved

A trip north with the U.K.โ€™s most powerful leader in a generation.

US Democrats in full-blown โ€˜freakoutโ€™ over Biden

One adviser to major Democratic donors keeps a running list of reasons Biden could lose.

Argentinaโ€™s Javier Milei slams Spainโ€™s Pedro Sรกnchez after ministerโ€™s drug use jibe

Madrid said the Argentine leader’s words do “not correspond” with the brotherly relations between the two countries.

Why Portland failed where Portugal succeeded in decriminalizing drugs

Oregon lawmakers gave it three years. Portugalโ€™s program took longer to show results.

Rotterdam mayor calls for end to lax stance on middle-class drug use

Europe has been โ€˜negligent,โ€™ as an acceptance of cocaine and cannabis leads to corruption, violence, and misery, says AboutalebThe mayor of a city on the frontline of the illegal drug trade has said that a โ€œnegligentโ€ attitude to recreational drug use,…

Germanyโ€™s dire situation requires humour and humanity | Letters

Thorsten Wulff looks for laughter amid the bleakness, while Carola Gartner is concerned about poverty and drug use Peter Kurasโ€™s analysis of the rather dire situation Germany faces right now is spot-on (Tractor chaos, neo-Nazis and a flatlining economy…

Let HIV communities lead

Ongoing HIV stigma hampers testing, treatment and prevention. Multilayered impacts necessitate community initiatives and the dismantling of discriminatory laws for effective collaboration, which are essential for achieving HIV elimination goals.

Illegal drugs loom over Luxembourgโ€™s election

Citizens fume as narcotics wave crashes into the Grand Duchy.

Keir Starmer says no to UK drugs reform

Opposition Labour Party leader says if he comes to power, his government would be focused on the 5 missions he has already set out.

Cannabis: Germany legalises, France punishes

Germany passed a bill to legalise cannabis this summer, while France continues to pursue a highly restrictive policy despite having one of the highest rates of cannabis use in Europe.