The new mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, is ending a San Francisco program that was spending $5 million per year to provide free alcohol to the homeless. The program was not created by the alcohol industry but the San Francisco Department of Health. Facilitating drug use should never be the goal of health officials. The MHHP is about harm prevention and facilitating treatment and drug free living.

In a report from the Truth Initiative tobacco imagery in top films from 1989 to 2023 increased 43%. In 2024, among the top box office movies, tobacco imagery appeared in 51% of the movies (77/152). Hollywood along with the music and sports world have played a major role in promoting and glamorizing drug use. The Truth Initiative, a national nonprofit, issued a report in 2023 where they articulated their vision and that Truth “supports policies designed to accelerate progress toward a future free from commercial tobacco and the predatory influences of the tobacco industry.” The MHHP is about having more organizations join the call to end the sale of tobacco and nicotine products.

News that “An updated Cochrane review reports that there is still no clear evidence showing cannabis-based medicines provide meaningful relief for people with chronic neuropathic pain. Despite growing interest in these treatments, the available research does not support their effectiveness compared with a placebo.” It’s to end the “medical” marijuana smokescreen. “Medical” marijuana is sold like alcohol and tobacco, not medicine. There are no medical protocols - which marijuana for which condition, no dosage, no duration, or contraindications. Medical marijuana has been about opening the door for legalization. It’s about profits, not patients.

A new study from the University of California San Francisco looking at the first California communities to end the sale of tobacco and nicotine products. In a statement from ASH, Action on Smoking and Health - a national nonprofit, they said the “…data showed that it did not lead to a decline in sales of non-tobacco products at retailers which formally sold them…”. The Executive Director of ASH concluded “The idea of ending tobacco sales, rather than minimizing them, is no longer wishful thinking – it’s an effective policy being implemented.” While this study is helpful, it’s Important to remember the primary reason for ending the sale of tobacco is health and safety.

The Governor of Oklahoma, in his state of the state speech, urged legislators to support a ballot measure to end Oklahoma’s medical marijuana program. “ When Oklahomans voted to legalize medical marijuana in 2018, we were sold a bill of goods…Now, we have more dispensaries than we do pharmacies…Think about that…” Medical marijuana is about profit, not patients and meant to open the door for legalization. Oklahoma would join efforts in Massachusetts and Maine which are looking to repeal marijuana legalization.

Colorado continues to be harmed by drug use. This news story highlights the increase in impaired driving deaths in Colorado in 2025. If lettuce kills one person it’s removed from sale. Impairing drugs like alcohol, marijuana, etc. kill thousands and not a mention of suspending or ending sales. The news story linked also highlights an ongoing media challenge where they fail to mention drugs involved and never will the media confront marijuana or alcohol reps about their drugs role in killing people.

Substack from Dr. Matt Bivens on how coldly and methodically Purdue (and other opioid manufacturers, but especially Sackler-led Purdue) worked at getting people addicted. Be sure to continue to follow the Make Health History Project and provide your contact info below to learn how the action of the opioid makers outlined by Dr. Bivens follow similar strategies by the tobacco and marijuana industry.

People Magazine story from January 8 on US weakening alcohol use guidance in the latest US Dietary Guidelines. The article includes the flippant remarks by Dr. Mehmet Oz who is running Medicare and Medicaid. For a drug that kills, according to the CDC, 178,000 each year - Dr Oz, at the press event, referred to it as a “social lubricant” and “don’t have it for breakfast.” Bigger question - why do we have dietary guidelines for any drug? The guidelines should discourage drug use.

Here is a story from April 2025 on the elimination of the CDC’s addressing tobacco use. Remember, the action taken by the administration was to eliminate - not refine or improve. Not noted in the story is the tobacco industry was the Trump campaigns largest corporate donor. Government plays a critical role in health and safety and this action was about protecting the tobacco industry profits, not the people.

A December 2025 story on a European study published in the Journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. “The 1,740 substances identified were classified into three categories according to available toxicological knowledge: category 1 includes substances presenting the highest risk…Of all the substances identified, 134 fall into the priority category. These substances include carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic, chronically toxic, respiratory irritant or endocrine disruptor compounds, some of which have multiple effects.”

A report on Florida’s largest “medical” marijuana company, Trulieve, funding efforts to reschedule marijuana. As the report shows, Trulieve is more about money than medicine. Trulieve spent $140 million on a failed ballot measure to legalize marijuana in Florida and is spending millions again to try in 2026. And they have spent more than million supporting Trump. Stay tuned for more exposing true intent of Trulieve and “medical” marijuana movement - clue - it’s about profits, not patients.

This Opinion piece from January 2025 helps to expose the harms of legalization and commercialization of marijuana. Legalization brought higher potency and, not surprisingly, massive increase in daily use of marijuana. Legalization of any drug has the same story - industry profits and everyone else picks up the expenses.