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Drugs policy

April 2026

  • People surround older man in room with US flags.

    Trump announces reforms to accelerate access to psychedelic drug treatments

    President signed executive order directing FDA to expedite review of psychedelic drugs including ibogaine
  • kratom pills on a table

    Kratom poisonings soar in US as experts blame synthetic versions and caution against bans

    Experts say natural kratom may offer benefits and blame synthetic derivatives for surge in poisonings noted by CDC
  • Close-up of person smoking a joint

    High times or low blows? Experts fail to clear air over German drug legalisation

    Cannabis policy still divisive two years in, with SPD hailing it while CDU minister says it is risk to young people’s health

March 2026

  • Oliver Robinson, in ripped blue jeans, black leather jacket and light-blue t-shirt, cuddles his dog while on a walk outdoors

    ‘Should never have been prescribed’: private UK cannabis clinics face call for tighter regulation

    Family pushing for greater controls after inquest finds Oliver Robinson’s prescription was ‘obstacle’ to proper care
  • US military members in uniform

    US army raises upper age for recruits to 42 and scraps marijuana restrictions

    Change raises age limit from 35 and removes barrier for entry for recruits who have a legal conviction for cannabis
  • A woman prepares for a subcutaneous self-injection with a semaglutide pen 'diet drug' .

    Weight-loss drugs do work – but not on their own

    Letters: GLP-1 medicines work best alongside lifestyle adjustments, writes Dr Sam Robson. Plus letters from Anne Williams, Siân Williams,anda reader who has had success with Mounjaro

February 2026

  • soldiers stand along a road

    Mexico faces uphill battle to appease kingpin Trump after cartel boss’s killing

    Trump tells Mexico to ‘step up’ effort to combat cartels even after military operation kills drug lord known as ‘El Mencho’
  • A woman using her hands to scoop a large amount of green leaves from a sack

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Coca leaf is life itself’: Andean growers’ hopes fade as WHO upholds global curb

    Under US pressure as part of the ‘war on drugs’, the WHO still categorises the sacred Indigenous remedy as akin to heroin or fentanyl, despite its many therapeutic properties

    • Cost of UK’s drug price deal with US will come out of NHS budget

    • I’ve never taken drugs or drunk alcohol, says Zack Polanski

    • Ex-British army chief calls on ministers to back MDMA-assisted therapy for veterans

January 2026

  • a women speaking

    Sheinbaum defends transfer of Mexican cartel members amid efforts to appease Trump

  • a person handing a person a small box of medication

    US health officials reverse course and reinstate $1.9bn to mental health and substance use

December 2025

  • an emergency worker pushes a man on a gurney outside

    The little-known program contributing to a decline in overdose deaths in the US

  • Injection bays at the Thistle centre in Glasgow.

    Scotland officials weigh up smoking ban exception for supervised crack use

September 2025

  • a bootle of Tylenol

    Trump’s Tylenol announcement incurs furious backlash: ‘This is yet more utter rubbish’

  • John (left) and Julie Tam, parents of Joshua Tam, who died at Lost Paradise music festival in December 2018.

    Parents of teen who died at music festival plead with Queensland government not to ban pill testing

  • Mexican troops patrol the US border to combat the flow of fentanyl and migrants on 5 February 2025.

    The ‘war on drugs’ has failed. There’s another way to solve the US fentanyl crisis

  • Nitazene sample

    ‘Crisis on top of crisis’: Scotland faces threat from dangerous form of opioids, experts warn

July 2025

  • A staff member packs overdose prevention kits

    Health experts warn Trump cuts to the CDC could hurt overdose prevention: ‘A step backwards’

    The Trump administration has reportedly withheld $140m from a CDC effort geared at preventing overdose deaths
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