As the new year trudges into fall break and first years get settled into campus life, Vanderbilt’s cocaine usage is nearing its peak as first years become connected to dealers while new markets become...

As The Economist noted in February, drug prohibition has not worked as well as one might have hoped: Since 1998, when the UN held an event entitled “A drug-free world: we can do it”, consumption of...

The fact that drugs are illegal is so embedded in our collective consciousness that we rarely question why this is so. The answer that comes to mind is that “drugs are bad”—bad for your health, bad...