The booming interest in the Sonoran Desert Toad as a source of 5-MeO-DMT is leading to increased pressure on the animals’ populations and ongoing sustainability concerns.
There is a dire need for environmental justice in drug policy – and to put the issue of drug cultivation on the radar of environmental and climate organisations. This must be done with the active involvement of those who depend on illicit crops for their livelihoods.
Ethan Nadelmann (former director of the Drug Policy Alliance), discusses the many facets of our relationship to drugs by talking with people who dedicate their lives to studying and shifting society's responses to them.
If implemented, the British government's proposals will worsen health and life outcomes for those already bearing the brunt of drug policing: racialised and otherwise marginalised communities.