Philippe Bourgois on the Lives and Thoughts of Drug Users
Philippe Bourgois, along with his co-author Jeffrey Schonberg, spent over a decade getting to know a group of homeless people in San Francisco whose lives revolved around their injection drug use. The...
24 Mar 20221h 3min
Philippe Bourgois on the Lives and Thoughts of Inner City Drug Dealers
Do you ever wonder about the actual lives of people who sell illicit drugs – their fears and aspirations, their family lives, their business models and moral codes, and their fates once their drug dea...
17 Mar 20221h 5min
Hanifa Nayo Washington on Creating a Psychedelic Phone Support Line
Whom do you call when you’re having a “bad trip,” or just need to process a psychedelic experience that’s now behind you? The Fireside Project is a psychedelic peer support line, co-founded by Hanifa ...
10 Mar 202253min
Congresswoman Nancy Mace on Legalizing Marijuana the Republican Way
Almost every Democratic member of Congress has voted to legalize marijuana but Republican support has remained scarce. Nancy Mace, a first term member of Congress from South Carolina, wants to change ...
3 Mar 202240min
Paul Stamets on the Magic of Mushrooms
Mycologists study mushrooms, and very few mycologists are household names, let alone have a Star Trek character named after them. But Paul Stamets is a truly exceptional character who has played an ex...
24 Feb 202250min
Cat Packer on Regulating Cannabis in Los Angeles
Among the eighteen states that have legalized marijuana to date, no state has faced greatest challenges in trying to suppress the illicit market and regulate the legal one than California – and nowher...
17 Feb 20221h 16min
Brian Earp on Love Drugs
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10 Feb 20221h 17min
Matt Johnson on Pioneering Psychedelic Research
One of the outstanding figures in the current Psychedelic Renaissance is Matt Johnson, who recently became the first researcher to be appointed to an endowed chair in psychedelic studies. He is the Su...
3 Feb 20221h 12min
