USDA’s Federal Data Gap, Explained
A 501c3 commissioned accredited private labs to test whole hemp biomass. The results are preliminary. They also answer a question that USDA’s food-data infrastructure has spent seven years not asking. Hemp has been federal food in the United States since 2018. Seven years later, USDA’s main nutritional database still has no entry for the whole […]
Less MDMA, More Cocaine and Ketamine: Wastewater Data Reveals Shifts in Drug Use in Europe
The world’s waters are polluted: no news there. We’ve been living with this issue for decades, which shows little sign of abating… But if we can’t fight it, we can at least study it. Indeed, analyzing our river systems can offer valuable insights into population health. That’s the aim of the new study by the […]
Even the DEA Says Teen Weed Use Is Down. WSJ Still Ties Teen Access to Legalization. Why Ignore the Data?
The Wall Street Journal keeps pairing real concerns about teen cannabis with a familiar implication: legalization made the problem worse. But national trend data, recent policy research (and even the DEA’s own youth-facing materials) still don’t show that legal adult markets drove a youth-use surge. The Wall Street Journal has now run back-to-back pieces nudging […]