'These are healing plants': Oakland decriminalizes magic mushrooms
[05.06.2019]
Oakland has become the second city in the US to decriminalize magic mushrooms and other psychedelics, with a policy that activists hope will spark a ...
How to legalize every drug
[22.05.2019]
As Canada continues to work out the kinks of legalizing cannabis—and jurisdictions around the world follow suit—harm reduction advocates and drug pol ...
Tourist boom for ayahuasca a mixed blessing for Amazon
[24.01.2017]
Surging consumption from foreigners has seen the cost of the DMT-rich brew skyrocket, a familiar situation for locals already struggling to afford qu ...
Ayahuasca: From the Amazon to the Global Village
[14.12.2015]
Indigenous peoples in the Amazon have used ayahuasca for centuries as a remedy for physical and psychological health, and to ensure the life and well ...
The US incapacity to enforce federal drug laws - and the global consequences
[31.10.2013]
The US drug policy is changing, pitting states against federal law. This essay explores this inner friction of contradictory drug legislation, and wh ...
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