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“Spiceophrenia” 22 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
Synthetic cannabimimetics and psychosis. Not long ago, public health officials were obsessing over the possibility that “skunk” marijuana—loosely defined as marijuana exhibiting THC concentrations ab...
LSD Mutates Into NBOMe 18 Aug 2013 | 10:08 pm
What’s on that blotter? It is a darkly poetic indictment of the War on Drugs that LSD, the first synthetic psychedelic, demonized for decades and the target of extremely expensive law enforcement ope...
Will Power and Its Limits 12 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
How to strengthen your self-control. Reason in man obscured, or not obeyed, Immediately inordinate desires, And upstart passions, catch the government From reason; and to servitude reduce Man, till t...
Peyote and the White Man’s Gin 9 Aug 2013 | 04:47 am
Aldous Huxley reflects on drugs in 1958. In the Brave New World of my fable there was no whisky, no tobacco, no illicit heroin, no bootlegged cocaine. People neither smoked, nor drank, nor sniffed, ...
Methamphetamine: An Excerpt 6 Aug 2013 | 08:26 pm
There’s more than one kind of monster. Type and I pass the pipe. The overhead light flickers and the wind picks up even more. It’s coming from the north because with each exhale, the smoke slips pas...
From “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee” 1 Aug 2013 | 01:30 am
By Honore de Balzac, translated by Robert Onopa. Coffee is a great power in my life; I have observed its effects on an epic scale…. Coffee affects the diaphragm and the plexus of the stomach, from w...
Crack Babies Are Turning Out Okay 28 Jul 2013 | 09:45 pm
Major study concludes that crack panic was overblown. In an excellent story for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Susan FitzGerald traces the fortunes of Philadelphia children enrolled in a study that began...
Fruit Fly Larvae Go Cold Turkey and Forget the Car Keys 22 Jul 2013 | 02:45 am
Not a pretty sight. Let’s start with the fruit fly, your basic Drosophila. A fruit fly, like a human, can become addicted to alcohol even at a very young age. The larval age. In other words, even as ...
MDPV Turns Lab Rats Into "Window Lickers" 15 Jul 2013 | 01:28 am
Popular bath salt drug shown to be highly addictive. Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in La Jolla, California, appear to have hammered the last nail into the coffin for the common...
Popular Synthetics: The Class of 2013 7 Jul 2013 | 02:42 am
Navigating the new alphabet of intoxication. You don’t have to be a molecular chemist to know which of today’s recreational drugs are safe. Wait, I take that back. You DO have to be a molecular chemi...
