Author: Christopher Ingraham
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The American commute is worse today than it’s ever been
New numbers from Gallup show that remote work is becoming more common. Workers today are more likely to spend at least part of their time working apart from their colleagues. And the share of time that these workers are spending out of the office is getting larger. The Gallup numbers are the latest evidence of…
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Abortion falls to lowest level since Roe v. Wade
The rate of abortions in the United States has fallen to its lowest level since the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, according to a report out Tuesday from the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights. In 2014, there were 14.6 abortions per every 1,000 women ages 15 through 44 in the…
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Survey: Two-thirds of cops say marijuana laws should be relaxed
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Pew Research Center survey of nearly 8,000 police officers finds that more than two-thirds of them say that marijuana use should be legal for either personal or medical use. The nationally representative survey of…
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Where do the heaviest-drinking Americans live?
“Mission Accomplished. Got everything done. Now I get to binge drink through New Year’s.” Twitter user “Comfortably Smug” tidily sums up the holiday sentiments of many of us as we wrap up 2016’s loose ends before checking out until the new year. While we don’t recommend that you “binge drink through New Year’s,” there’s no…
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Where the heaviest-drinking Americans live
“Mission Accomplished. Got everything done. Now I get to binge drink through New Year’s.” Twitter user “Comfortably Smug” tidily sums up the holiday sentiments of many of us as we wrap up 2016’s loose ends before checking out until the new year. While we don’t recommend that you “binge drink through New Year’s,” there’s no…
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Today’s teens are way better behaved than you were
Teen drug and alcohol use has fallen to levels not seen since the height of the drug war in the 1990s, according to new federal survey data. The Monitoring the Future survey of about 50,000 high school students found that “considerably fewer teens reported using any illicit drug other than marijuana in the prior 12…
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Where legal weed will likely win today – and where it probably won’t
One day out from the election, here’s where the latest polling on the five ballot measures stands. The initiatives in California and Massachusetts appear to be heavily favored to pass, with recent polls indicating support approaching or exceeding 60 percent in both states. The Nevada and Maine legalization measures are favored, but by smaller margins.…
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Here’s how legal pot changed Colorado and Washington
Marijuana has had little impact so far on various public health measures in states where it has been legalized, according to a report from the Drug Policy Alliance released Thursday. Three years after commercial marijuana markets first opened in Colorado and Washington, the nonprofit organization, which favors marijuana legalization, acknowledges that it is “too early…
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Police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent crimes — combined
On any given day in the United States, at least 137,000 people sit behind bars on simple drug-possession charges, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch. Nearly two-thirds of them are in local jails. The report says that most of these jailed inmates have not been…
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What makes marijuana users different from everyone else
A massive study published this month in the Journal of Drug Issues found that the proportion of marijuana users who smoke daily has rapidly grown, and that many of those frequent users are poor and lack a high-school diploma. Examining a decade of federal surveys of drug use conducted between 2002 and 2013, study authors Steven Davenport and Jonathan Caulkins…