Browsing: Drugs

From pleasure and connection to harm reduction and policy failure, a look at what decades of drug enforcement got wrong about human behavior. The conversation around…

For the last century or so, the vast majority of governments has approached the fight against drug trafficking with force, whether police or military. However, after…

Religion lives in practice, not only in pews. In “Sacred Drugs,” scholar Gary Laderman maps how psychoactive substances move through ritual, identity, and meaning. The canvas…

Jeff Freeman’s earliest memory of cannabis isn’t one of smoking a joint or walking into a dispensary. It’s of walking in on his older cousins in…

86% of drug researchers have used substances at some point in their lives, with 47% admitting to using them in the past three months, a 2024…

It’s the start of a new festival season, as music lovers far and wide prepare for a summer full of multi-day events featuring some of their…

Blue Monday, the worst day of the year, has come and gone. The third Monday of January – this year the 16th – passed by with…

Like peanut butter and jelly, sex and drugs have long gone hand in hand; but the connection between the two is more complex than many realize.…

Jimi Hendrix is widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of all time, with his pioneering approach to the guitar and his unique sound that…

If you’re ever lucky enough to visit Amsterdam and go to the Vincent Van Gogh museum, you’ll be blown away by the body of work that…