{
  "id": 17287803,
  "title": "The psychological bias keeping U.S. drug laws out of step with science",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/the-psychological-bias-keeping-u-s-drug-laws-out-of-step-with-science",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-30T20:00:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PsyPost",
    "slug": "psypost",
    "url": "https://www.psypost.org/the-psychological-bias-keeping-u-s-drug-laws-out-of-step-with-science/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Telling Americans how harmful alcohol and tobacco really are reduced their support for keeping those substances legal. But giving similar expert ratings for less harmful illegal drugs, such as LSD and MDMA, barely changed opinions.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}