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Heroin and Heartbreak: Eduardo Hidalgo’s Stigma-Free Memoir

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.

MDMA comedown: what a survey of 497 people found

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.

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MDMA, Empathy, and Compassion: Does It Transform Social Behavior?

We explore how MDMA influences the processing of negative emotions, social rejection responses, and feelings of self-compassion.

Escohotado on Cannabis: Use, Abuse, and Prohibition

Antonio Escohotado discusses cannabis, the boundary between use and abuse, home growing, and his political critique of prohibition.

Sustainable Drugophilia: Regulating Drugs Instead of Prohibition

Part three of the series: what sustainable drug use proposes and what legal drug regulation could look like instead of prohibition.

Wild Lettuce and Lactucarium: The “Opium” That Wasn’t

Wild lettuce (Lactuca virosa) and its latex, lactucarium, once promised dreams and mild sedation. We review the history, science, and risks.

“DMT: The Tryptamine Within Us”

From Amazonian brews to Szára and Strassman: what we know about DMT, why the body produces it, and where data ends and mythology begins.

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