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2 months ago | 
theatlantic.com | Jonathan P. Caulkins |Keith Humphreys
In 2012, Colorado and Washington State legalized the commercial production and sale of cannabis for nonmedical use, and since then 22 other U.S. states have followed. The shift was viewed in many quarters as benign and overdue—involving an organic, even medicinal, intoxicant with no serious drawbacks.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Keith Humphreys
Executive summaryFrom 2020-2024, policy toward drugs, policing, and public disorder changed dramatically in North America’s Pacific Northwest region. In the first half of this period, advocates for a new set of policies that blended libertarian and left-wing principles persuaded policymakers and the public to dramatically reduce law enforcement’s role in drug policy on the theory that this would allow for a more health- and social justice-focused approach to drugs.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Keith Humphreys |Vanda Felbab-Brown
The promise was that harm reduction would at least reduce the harm, but in places like British Columbia, overdoses kept going up. Keith Humphrey's In this episode, host Vanda Felbab-Brown interviews Stanford professor Keith Humphreys about drug decriminalization in San Francisco, Oregon, and British Columbia.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
aei.org | Brent Orrell |Sally Satel |Keith Humphreys
On July 8, AEI’s Brent Orrell hosted the fifth event in the “On the Front Porch” series with the Brookings Institution’s Tony Pipa featuring Stanford University Professor Keith Humphreys and AEI’s Sally Satel, two experts in opioid treatment and the societal effects of drug abuse in rural areas. They discuss the factors that led to the opioid crisis and the challenges in resolving it.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
sfchronicle.com | Keith Humphreys
Every reasonable person agrees that addiction is a prevalent challenge among the homeless population, whether they base that judgment on scientific research or on the experience of walking the streets of California communities. But there is a sharp disagreement about how to respond to this reality, one that touches on familiar debates about drug use, human rights and the true definition of compassion.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
nantonnews.com | Keith Humphreys
Advertisement 1 • Article contentWhen hundreds of public health and safety officials gather in Edmonton this week for the Safety in Our Cities conference, they will discuss what role legal pressure can play in changing addicted people’s behaviour. As the conferees will learn, the international evidence is clear: compassionate intervention can work. Advertisement 2Article contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load.
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May 22, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Jonathan P. Caulkins |Keith Humphreys
A new study has documented a remarkable rise in Americans’ use of marijuana. Over the last 30 years, the number of people who report using the drug in the past month has risen fivefold from 8 million to 42 million. Through the mid-1990s, only about one-in-six or one-in-eight of those users consumed the drug daily or near daily, similar to alcohol’s roughly one-in-ten. Now, more than 40 percent of marijuana users consume daily or near daily.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
allgoodmovies.com | Keith Humphreys
At RKO during World War II, Ukrainian-American producer Val Lewton developed a signature horror film style that influenced many subsequent filmmakers and also helped launch some notable Hollywood careers (e.g., Directors Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, and Mark Robson).
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | Keith Humphreys
T he image on the billboard that appeared in downtown San Francisco in early 2020 would have been familiar to anyone who’d ever seen a beer commercial: Attractive young people laughing and smiling as they shared a carefree high. But the intoxicant being celebrated was fentanyl, not beer. “Do it with friends,” the billboard advised, so as to reduce the risks of overdose.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
theatlantic.com | Keith Humphreys |Jonathan P. Caulkins
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The image on the billboard that appeared in downtown San Francisco in early 2020 would have been familiar to anyone who’d ever seen a beer commercial: Attractive young people laughing and smiling as they shared a carefree high. But the intoxicant being celebrated was fentanyl, not beer. “Do it with friends,” the billboard advised, so as to reduce the risks of overdose.
