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Reason
June 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Psychedelic Revival Psychedelic research is returning to Harvard, where psychiatrist John Halpern plans to give MDMA (a.k.a. Ecstasy) to late-stage cancer patients to relieve their anxiety and to help them come to terms with death.   |
Salon.com
August 4, 2000
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Higher being Can legalizing drugs bring us closer to God? |
Chemistry World
May 15, 2009
Katrina Megget |
Tripping over red tape The UK may be moving a step closer to allowing the use of a cannabis-based drug to treat the symptoms of multiple sclerosis |
Reason
June 2007
Jacob Sullum |
Spiritual Highs and Legal Blows The power and peril of religious exemptions from drug prohibition in the U.S. |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2013
Maria Burke |
'Scientific censorship' hamstringing psychoactive drug research Legal controls on psychoactive drugs have hindered neuroscience research and the discovery of new treatments for brain disorders in 'one of the most scandalous examples of scientific censorship in modern times', claim researchers. |
Salon.com
July 11, 2002
Douglas Cruickshank |
"Zig Zag Zen," by Allan Hunt Badiner, ed. A book about Buddhism and psychedelic drugs asks whether it's best, when seeking higher consciousness, to take the stairs or the elevator. |
Reason
June 2007
Jacob Sullum |
Looking for God in All the Wrong Places It seems clear that many independent psychedelic users are seeking experiences that are fundamentally similar to those of legally privileged peyote and ayahuasca users. |
Reason
March 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Psychedelic Tea Drugs and religious freedom in the U.S. In November the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction barring the government from interfering with a church's ritual use of a controlled substance. |
Salon.com
January 10, 2000
Andy Dehnart |
Is being hooked a choice? A new book argues that all addictions are a matter of free will, even heroin and coffee. |
Wired
May 2000
Erik Davis |
Terence McKenna's Last Trip The "altered statesman" emerged from Leary's long shadow to push a magical blend of psychedelics, technology, and revelatory rap. He had less time than he knew. |
Reason
October 2005
Maia Szalavitz |
In Defense of Happy Pills While psychotherapy validated by research has its place, there is no convincing reason why it should be considered inherently superior to drugs. Pleasure can be just as important for emotional recovery and growth as pain, if not more so. |
Salon.com
August 9, 2000
Cynthia Kuhn & Wilkie Wilson |
Medicinal muse Can one become more creative by doing drugs? |
Chemistry World
July 16, 2007
Karen Harries-Rees |
Hallucinogenic Drug in the Clinic A trial to determine whether patients with anxiety relating to advanced-stage illnesses can be safely given LSD-assisted psychotherapy and whether it improves their anxiety symptoms has been approved by a Swiss ethics committee. |
Chemistry World
June 26, 2013
Emma Stoye |
UN report warns of global rise in legal highs The latest World Drug Report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says governments around the world are struggling to cope with a growing number of legal party drugs. |
Salon.com
August 4, 2000
Gary Kamiya |
Writing high In "Writing on Drugs," Sadie Plant embarks on a stimulating trip into literature's strangest, smokiest den. |
Reason
February 2009
RU Sirius |
List: The Immediate Future Thoughts on new energy sources, voluntary collaboration and genomic medicine for the future. |
Reason
July 2007
Brink Lindsey |
The Aquarians and the Evangelicals How left-wing hippies and right-wing fundamentalists created a libertarian America. |
