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Texas THC Vape Sales Ban Takes Effect as Shops Strip Shelves

State leaders cite youth protection as the driving public-health rationale.

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CHP Launches Labor Day ‘Maximum Enforcement’ to Crack Down on Impaired Driving Statewide

Chicago Launches 24/7 Narcan Newsstands in Uptown to Expand Lifesaving Access

Study Links Parental Liver-Disease Death to Double the Risk of Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis

Polk County Touts 32-Arrest Drug Bust as Sheriff Wears Seized $50,000 Chain

Ricky Williams Urges Trump to Reclassify Cannabis to Schedule III

Second Raid on South Bronx 'Budzotic' Nets 1 Ton of Illegal Cannabis and 11 Arrests

Kentucky Immediately Schedules 'Designer Xanax' as 21 State AGs Press DEA for Nationwide Ban

Trump Administration Signals Imminent Decision on Moving Marijuana to Schedule III

Adams Unveils ‘Compassionate Interventions Act’ to Expand Involuntary Drug Treatment, Drawing Intense Opposition

Florida Moves to Ban Concentrated Kratom Alkaloid as Schedule I Substance

Baltimore Accepts $152 Million From McKesson and AmerisourceBergen to Close Opioid Lawsuit

New Mexico Declares Emergency for Rio Arriba County and Española

GSA Publishes Opioid Safety Toolkit for Older-Adult Homes

Liberians Demand National Emergency as Boakai Fast-Tracks Anti-Drug Plan

Trump Administration Reverses Federal Harm Reduction Policies

Napa Mother Charged With Murder in Son’s Fentanyl Death, Father Faces Endangerment Charges

Ice-T Unveils Trailer for A&E’s 'Fame and Fentanyl' Documentary on Fentanyl Crisis

St. Paul Mayor Carter Files for Third Term as Vang Her Enters Mayoral Race

Punjab Rolls Out India’s First Evidence-Based Anti-Drug Curriculum in Government Schools