The global war on drugs entrenches racial & colonial power. New paper co-authored by our Acting ED Catherine Cook exposes how global systems sustain this inequality. harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Industry-backed cannabis group calls foul on AMA recommendations medicalrepublic.com.au/industry-backe…

Launch: Safer drug laws for Aotearoa New Zealand report youtube.com/live/6itgrOw_A… via YouTube

Keep pride street party alive gabrielledevietri.org.au/issue/keep-pri…

Push to change rules for driving while taking medicinal cannabis youtu.be/XFuYC-UJ4uk?si… via YouTube

The Dutch Experiment: Navigating the Transition to a Regulated Cannabis Market in the Netherlands vicentellp.com/insights/the-d… vicentellp.com/insights/the-d…

Babis is back: Right-wing populist's return expected to steer Czech Republic away from Ukraine latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Cannabis brand Canna Collective announces new ad agency bizcommunity.com/article/cannab… via Marketing & Media SA

On cannabis fight, Ojibwe man tests limits of the state’s authority. Again. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/14/on-…

Omaha Tribe to hold first meeting of its Cannabis Commission nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-a…

Judge temporarily blocks Ohio Gov. DeWine from banning intoxicating hemp products wlwt.com/article/judge-…

🚨Caerphilly by-election dispatch🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Pissed off Labour Councillors and volunteers; a rattled Reform candidate; a fragile Plaid voting base… The end of Welsh Labour? Me & Ben Walker have been around town taking it all in The New Statesman: newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

I wrote about Graham Platner, who I spoke to about the controversies engulfing his campaign—the posts, the tattoo—as well as war, violence and Marine infantry culture. Who is the real Graham Platner? And where's the line on what Democrats are willing to accept to win back men? 🧵

Good example of the importance of book reviews. This will probably fuck up whatever plans she had, to some degree washingtonpost.com/books/2025/10/…

Councillors at two local governments in Victoria have emphatically pushed back against attempts to reinstate Christian acts of worship in government meetings, successfully arguing that religion should not be privileged. Read more: rationalist.com.au/councillors-pu… #auspol

Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job.

abc.net.au/news/2025-10-2…

Cooperating for democracy in Fiji youtu.be/zJ6ksMDGLkM?si… via YouTube

In opposing a petition calling for Christian prayers to be reinstated at the start of Bass Coast council meetings, one councillor has argued that prayers should be left to churches and another has said that he has “as much religion as a cat”. More: rationalist.com.au/councillors-pu… #auspol