Reefer Madness or Pot Paradise? The Surprising Legacy of the Place Where Legal Weed Began (Published 2019)

In Colo., a look at life after marijuana legalization - The Boston Globe

In November, Massachusetts voters are likely to consider a ballot question legalizing recreational marijuana.

I used to support legalizing all drugs. Then the opioid epidemic happened.

America’s worst drug crisis shows what can happen when a dangerous, addictive substance is made easily accessible.

Legalize It All, by Dan Baum

How to win the war on drugs

Long-term study reveals harm in regular cannabis use

Regular cannabis use has harmful effects regardless of the age a person starts using, a University of Queensland-led study has found.

Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies

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Opinion | How to Win a War on Drugs (Published 2017)

Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime.

Can Psychedelics Make Us More Moral?

With a renaissance going on in psychedelic research, is making us better people included? 

Home — CannaDB

The social strain library — catalog every strain you've grown, smoked, or wondered about.

A Dose of a Hallucinogen From a ‘Magic Mushroom,’ and Then Lasting Peace (Published 2016)

Two studies used psilocybin to see if the drug could reduce depression and anxiety in cancer patients. The results were striking.

Beyond Roleplay: Jailbreaking Gemini with drugs and ritual - Tidepool Heavy Industries

Kafkaesque Backrooms

On Soft Yellow, Mark Fisher and Artificial Paradises in the Labyrinths of Neoliberalism

Kafkaesque Backrooms

On Soft Yellow, Mark Fisher and Artificial Paradises in the Labyrinths of Neoliberalism

Mushrooms evolved psychedelics twice, baffling scientists

Researchers found that magic mushrooms and fiber caps independently evolved different biochemical pathways to create psilocybin. This convergence shows nature’s ingenuity, but the reason why remains unknown—possibly predator deterrence. Beyond evolutionary mystery, the discovery provides new enzyme tools for biotech, with promising applications for producing psilocybin-based medicines.

The Global Decline in the Mental Health of the Young

One of the major findings in wellbeing research until recently was that happiness was U-shaped by age and unhappiness hump-shaped by age. There was a midlife crisis — a finding reported in well over 600 published papers using data on 145 countries. It was present in both developing and developed countries. And it was persistent over time. The finding of a peak in ill-being in midlife was consistent with Anne Case and Angus Deaton’s work on mortality and the so-called “deaths of despair.”1 In the US in particular and to a lesser extent in other countries, White prime-aged individuals without a college degree had high death rates from suicide, drug overdoses, and cirrhosis of the liver. Drug overdose deaths in the US, for example, peaked at midlife ages. In 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that overdose death rates per 100,000 by age rose from 13.5 for 15-to-24-year-olds to 45.6 for 25-to-34-year-olds and 60.8 for 35-to-44-year-olds, and then declined to 53.3 for 45-to-54-year-olds, 49.2 for 55-to-64-year-olds, and 14.7 for those over the age of 65.2 The morbidity data matched the mortality data.