Leonard Pickard on Making LSD and the Brotherhood of Underground Chemists
The federal government claimed that Leonard Pickard was quite possibly the biggest producer of LSD in history. There’s no telling if that was true, but a judge sentenced him to two life sentences with...
7 Okt 20211h 20min
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Legalizing Marijuana
If someone had suggested just five years ago that the day would soon come when the majority leader of the U.S. Senate would co-sponsor a comprehensive bill to legalize marijuana federally, most people...
30 Sep 202125min
Patrick Radden Keefe on the Sacklers' Responsibility for the Opioid Crisis
Patrick Radden Keefe is a brilliant journalist and staff writer for The New Yorker. His recent book, Empire of Pain, examines the ways in which the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma contributed to ...
23 Sep 20211h 4min
Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner on Drugs & Criminal Justice Reform
I first crossed paths with Larry Krasner almost thirty years ago, when he was a young activist attorney representing a needle exchange program in Philadelphia. Today he is district attorney of Philade...
16 Sep 202147min
Clive Bates on the E-Cigarette Revolution
In the early 2000s, Clive Bates was one of Britain's foremost advocates against cigarette smoking and Big Tobacco. Today he is one of the world's foremost proponents of e-cigarettes as a way to help p...
10 Sep 20211h 7min
Tim Ferriss on the Potential of Psychedelics
Tim Ferriss is an entrepreneur, investor, podcast host and productivity guru who first gained fame as author of the "4-Hour" self-help book series. During the past few years, he has focused much of hi...
2 Sep 202156min
NIDA Director Nora Volkow on Running a Drug Research Agency in a Political World
Dr. Nora Volkow has headed the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which funds a majority of the world’s research in the area, since the early years of George W. Bush’s administration. I was...
26 Aug 202157min
President Juan Manuel Santos on Ending Drug Prohibition in the Americas
Juan Manuel Santos was president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018, during which time he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to negotiate a peace treaty to resolve the multi-decade conflict with the...
19 Aug 202146min
