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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
Drug Policy
Drug Policy
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Director of Field Operations Casey Durst speaks about cocaine seized from a cargo ship at a Philadelphia port on June 21, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
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A customer pays for cannabis products at Essence Vegas Cannabis Dispensary after the start of recreational marijuana sales began on July 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Getty Images)
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Opioid epidemic and drug abuse concept with a heroin syringe and pills
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Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was given the death penalty by a Chinese court on Monday. He had appealed a 15-year prison sentence for drug smuggling. (Intermediate Peoples’ Court of Dalian/GETTY IMAGES)
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An Afghan security personnel stands guard as others destroy an illegal poppy crop in the Surkh Rod district of eastern Nangarhar province, April 5, 2017 (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Experts
David W. Murray
Senior Fellow
