One year is apparently how long it takes for the Trump Administration to begin working on issues of national crisis. Wait, has any work actually been done? We have a plan, you probably know that much, but it doesn’t appear that any real action is being taken. After announcing ...read more
Editor's note: I have held off releasing this series of essays for some time now, for reasons I'm not quite sure I know how to articulate. Perhaps it was partially due to feeling emotionally and artistically 'blocked' after the election of Donald Trump, or perhaps it has been my ...read more
Out of all of the campaign promises that Trump's poorly educated supporters latched onto, nothing resonated more than his promise to build a wall between the US and Mexico. And out of all of those promises, everyone agrees that a border wall is the least likely to be fulfilled. ...read more
Coming on the heels of a number of stories this past week on medical tests of psilocybin and their truly astonishing potential, Ben and Vazken talk about the therapeutic uses of psilocybin. Are mushrooms an emerging miracle drug, and can they be used to reconnect us to our in ...read more
Two weeks ago, John Oliver joked about how American politics had reached a new low in the form of Donald Trump's candidacy. A week later, he lamented that the previous low was now barely in sight from our new vantage point somewhere deep in the earth's crust. After Saturday ...read more
A major breakthrough has just happened in the field of neuroscience -- an event David Nutt, the British government’s former drugs advisor and professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London has likened "to the discovery of the Higgs boson". From the Guardian: ...read more
Apparently, British politicians are determined to return their country to the dark ages with one of the most regressive pieces of legislation in the nation's history. The Psychoactive Substances Bill passed its third reading in the Commons yesterday, and looks to go into effect ...read more
This article was first published on 'Banter M', our weekly digital magazine on May 28th 2015. I have made some adjustments to the piece having not reading it for several months. The content and timeline of events is unchanged, but I have added parts of the journey I had ...read more
According to Virgin founder and CEO Richard Branson, the UN is about to urge all governments around the world to decriminalize all drugs. If true, this would be a monumental shift in the fight to end the pointless drugs war that has yielded little more than the incarceration of ...read more
Just days before Floyd Mayweather's final fight with Andre Berto last weekend, award winning sports journalist Thomas Hauser broke the news on SBNation that there were very serious flaws with the drug testing Mayweather has been subjected to over the past few years. The story ...read more
Other than an unfortunate incident that involved me accidentally ingesting half a bag of weed infused Chex Mix and going into an alternate dimension for 48 hours (a long story for another time), I've never really used Marijuana as it just doesn't do all that much for me. ...read more
Back when I used to do a lot of acid, my friends and I had a kind of routine we'd follow to achieve maximum fucked-upedness. We'd drop, wait for the opening waves -- which would be announced by the walls starting to breathe -- then spend the "peak" time wiping colors around on ...read more
LIFE AND OTHER FOUR LETTER WORDS: V I C E People will tell you they want to have good jobs and get on the property ladder and get an education and have some kids and have opinions on films and give a Jolly-Green-Giant-fuck about their future - but it seems they don’t. Not ...read more
Two days ago, a seemingly very pleasant writer named Lauren Martin wrote a piece called "Could It Be? Millennials Are The New Generation of Hippies, But With Better Weed" for Elite Daily, a website which claims to be “The Voice of Generation-Y” and whose mere existence refutes ...read more
Ashleigh Banfield thinks Philip Seymour Hoffman's dealer should be prosecuted for murder. And you thought Law & Order's Jack McCoy was just a TV character. From the Huffington Post: Banfield argued on "Legal View" Monday that Hoffman's drug dealer had to be a "sick man" to give ...read more
"The experience of going to Fox News on pot cookies is -- I’ve never been more scared and bored in my life." -- Comedian Joe Mande on his visit to a taping of Huckabee while high off his ass Mande and his Totally J/K co-host Noah Garfinkel apparently dressed up, got high, then ...read more
I spent most of the years I lived in San Francisco in the traditionally Latino but grotesquely gentrified Mission District. Every Sunday morning at 8 a.m., a neighbor of mine would blare that festive, circus-y Mariachi music and hang out his window singing along loudly and ...read more
No, see, that's all wrong. You put it squarely between your opposing thumbs and forefingers and push in hard. That snaps the roll in half along the center-line perfectly and you don't get any of that mess (which tastes terrible, by the way). Don't worry, it took me a while to ...read more
In August, President Obama's drug czar Gil Kerlikowske told the Washington Post that the Administration is committed to increasing spending on addiction treatment but doesn't support decriminalization of illegal drugs, despite mounting evidence that the government's 40-year ...read more
Here's what you should be reading this morning. Why? Why the hell not? Beats starting at the clock waiting for the weekend to begin. 1. Up Yours Alec Baldwin officially has a show on MSNBC. It's called "Up Late" -- not to be confused with "Up," "All In" or any of the other ...read more
Gawker wants you to pay for a video of Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, smoking crack cocaine. Writes John Cook: As you may have heard, Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, smokes crack cocaine. We've seen a video of him smoking crack cocaine, and the people who have the video would ...read more
By Christie Thompson When the Obama administration released its 2013 Drug Control Strategy recently, drug czar Gil Kerlikowske called it a "21st century" approach to drug policy. "It should be a public health issue, not just a criminal justice issue," he said. The latest plan ...read more
By Charles Seife and Rob Garver On the morning of May 3, 2010, three agents of the Food and Drug Administration descended upon the Houston office of Cetero Research, a firm that conducted research for drug companies worldwide. Lead agent Patrick Stone, now retired from the ...read more
By Chez Pazienza: So Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong threw out a bunch of obscenities, bitched about Justin Bieber and, essentially, corporate rock production, smashed his guitar and stormed offstage. And? In case you haven't heard or seen incident I'm talking about, ...read more
They'll say anything to defend Leader Limbaugh. Anything. This example is National Review's Jim Geraghty* who takes issue with characterizations of Leader Limbaugh as a pill-popping oaf. Geraghty says, wouldn't that justify calling President Obama a "cokehead" for his previous ...read more
