“Drug overdoses killed some 87,000 Americans over a 12-month period ending in September 2024 — more lives lost than the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq combined.”
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I Tried Magic Mushrooms for My Mental Health. Here’s What Happened.
“In Colorado, scientists and entrepreneurs are looking to bring psychedelic mushrooms to the masses. Could their purported healing properties help me?”
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Is God a Mushroom?
“New research into the role of psychedelics upends our understanding of spirituality—and with it, our vision of the cosmos.”
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Pain and Suffering
“There were several obstacles to treating Marshall’s pain, but the greatest was the stigma of opioids.”
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Becoming El Jefe
“Before Ryan Wedding landed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list as a high-level associate of El Chapo, he was a bright-eyed kid from Thunder Bay. The inside story of how an Olympic snowboarding prodigy became one of the world’s most dangerous and powerful drug lords.”
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She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away.
” Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels, decongestants and Zantac. Yet newborns are being taken from parents based on the results.”
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Quitting Xanax: One Writer’s Story
“The pill worked like magic, ease spreading through me pleasantly until I felt normal again.”
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Out of Your Head
“Exploring psychedelic experiences that seem wider than the brain.”
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The Land Beyond the Drug War
“It’s more than fifty years on from our declaration of a war on narcotics, and people are getting higher on more destructive shit than ever.”
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Ecstasy’s Odyssey
“The recent surge in MDMA research has demonstrated applications that range far beyond psychiatry, from treating Parkinson’s disease and cancer to promoting trust and emotional bonding.”
