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6 days ago · Filter sits down with Dr. Marewa Glover, to discuss New Zealand’s successful adoption of tobacco harm reduction. Participants in a vaping group at Saint Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction, a pioneering syringe services provider in New York, describe their experiences of switching from cigarettes.
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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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Oct 16, 2023 · Helen is Filter‘s senior editor and a multimedia journalist. She is on the methadone, vaping and nicotine train. Helen is also a filmmaker. Her two documentaries about methadone are Liquid Handcuffs and Swallow THIS.As an LCSW, she has worked with people who use drugs for over two decades.
Massachusetts Voters Reject Psychedelic Legalization Measure
Nov 6, 2024 · I n a result with major implications for the United States psychedelic movement, Massachusetts voters resoundingly rejected a ballot initiative to decriminalize psychedelic drugs and legalize therapeutic use.. At publication time, with 90 percent of votes counted, the outcome on the state ballot’s Question 4 had been called. The running totals stood at 56.9 percent opposed and 43.1 percent ...
“Dual Use” of Vapes and Cigarettes Is Unfairly Maligned
5 days ago · by Kiran Sidhu November 8, 2024. D ual use, referring to people who smoke and vape concurrently, is a phenomenon often cited by opponents of vaping to discredit its harm reduction impact. To their claim that switching is not quitting, they add that dual use simply extends people’s addiction to nicotine, doesn’t help them quit smoking, and ...
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FilterMag; Use + Harm Reduction; Laypeople Administering Naloxone More Often, Per 911-Call Data. In cases where 911 is called, more bystanders than previously have been using naloxone ...
Momentum for Cannabis Legalization Stalls as Three State …
6 days ago · by Jack Gorsline November 6, 2024. T hree ballot initiatives to legalize cannabis for adult use failed to pass votes in Florida and the Dakotas on November 5. It was an abrupt check to momentum for state-level legalization in recent years—even if medical marijuana in Nebraska, city decriminalization initiatives in Texas and over 100 local ...
DEA Bids to Exclude Expert Witnesses From Psychedelics-Ban …
by Jack Gorsline October 4, 2024. T he Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking to exclude what advocates say is key testimony from an upcoming hearing on the agency’s long-running bid to ban two psychedelic substances. Advocates opposing the ban have hit back with scathing countermotions, disputing the DEA’s latest move and threatening ...
Multnomah County, Oregon, Begins Its Post-Decrim "Deflection" …
Oct 8, 2024 · Issues seen in Multnomah County will be replicated across much of Oregon. The state’s Criminal Justice Commission reported that as of September 1, 28 of Oregon’s 36 counties had plans to create a deflection program and had applied for related grant funding, according to PBS. The state commission is set to hand out over $20 million over the ...