Eduardo Hidalgo releases a memoir through Autsaider Cómics detailing nearly forty years of heroin use. A guilt-free testimony that challenges the only narrative society accepts about this substance.

In a cross-sectional survey of 497 people with MDMA experience, 74.5% reported negative aftereffects at least once. This self-reported sample does not establish causality, represent all users or demonstrate that supplements or antidepressants are effective for managing comedowns.

At the last High Times Cannabis Cup, there was one figure whom virtually every event revolved around, directly or indirectly: Winston Hubert McIntosh, better known as Peter Tosh (10/19/1944 – 9/11/1987).

Elisa Guerra Doce
PhD in Prehistory
University of Reading, United Kingdom

Drug use in Europe is an ancient practice that, based on compelling archaeological evidence, dates back to Prehistory. Archaeobotanical remains of psychoactive plants have been unearthed at several archaeological sites, drug alkaloids have been detected in prehistoric artifacts and their metabolites in human bones, and various ritual artistic representations incorporate images of psychoactive plants. All this suggests that prehistoric European communities used psychoactive substances in ritual contexts, as evidenced by their recurring presence in tombs and ceremonial sites.

We continue the article begun in our previous installment. Hofmann now describes the properties of the most well-known entheogens of the 1950s—referred to as "psychotomimetics" or "hallucinogens" at the time—among which LSD is counted.

LSD, the medicine of Dr. Albert Hofmann

The eighth installment on adrenochrome: new reports from trials and a rigorous analysis of its supposed psychoactive effects, between myth and evidence.

 

 

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