Anya Sarang on Russia and Drugs
Drug policy in Russia is -– no surprise -- highly repressive. But that was not entirely the case in the early 2000s, when dozens of harm reduction programs operated around the country and a drug liber...
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Gideon Lasco on the World’s Most Vicious Drug War
When Rodrigo Duterte became president of The Philippines in 2016, he launched a drug war that was distinguished by his encouragement and approval of extra-judicial killings by police officials and the...
5 Touko 20221h 3min
Mike Jay on Mescaline
Until it was supplanted by LSD in the 1950’s and 60’s, mescaline was the best known and most popular psychedelic in the world. It’s the key psychoactive ingredient in peyote, which has been used for m...
28 Huhti 20221h 18min
Chef Nikki Steward on Cooking with Cannabis
Chef Nikki Steward is one of the most famous and talented of chefs who cook and bake with cannabis. She describes her brand “The High End Affair” as a traveling “infused culinary experience" and has c...
20 Huhti 20221h 7min
Sam Quinones on the Rise of Fentanyl & P2P Methamphetamine
Sam Quinones is a distinguished journalist and author who has reported on America's opioid crisis for over a decade. His 2015 book, Dreamland, examined the spread of prescription opioids and then hero...
14 Huhti 20221h 31min
Alejandro Madrazo and Catalina Perez on Drug Prohibition in Mexico
Few countries have suffered the consequences of ineffective prohibitionist policies for so long or severely as Mexico. Professors Alejandro Madrazo and Catalina Perez are among the world’s leading ex...
7 Huhti 20221h 2min
A Visit to the First Legal Safe Injection Site in the USA
I took a short subway ride from my home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to East Harlem to visit OnPoint NYC – the first overdose prevention center, a.k.a. safe injection site or supervised injection fa...
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