Certain celebrity authors want to help you accept that certain drug use is OKand theres nothing wrong with psychedelic exceptionalism, but it overlooks the biggest destructive forces of the drug war

No matter what the problem is, whether its fentanyl overdoses or mass shootings, the solution to all of our problems is always more money and bigger budgets for police, prosecutors and prisons. Funny

For good reason, about 150 million people use cannabis, according to the World Health Organization. Thats around 3 percent of the global population or the entire population of Russia. In most places,

Naltrexone, also known by its brand name, Vivitrol, is an opioid antagonist that kicks opioids off of opioid receptor in the brain, not unlike naloxone. But thanks to a combination of overprescription

Psychedelics and other drugs can trigger a condition called Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder, a terrible name for a real condition that we dont have much data on and is poorly understood.

Its easy to hate the massive pharmaceutical corporations that extract obscene profit from the healthcare systemand there are many, many reasons why you should distrust these companies, although the

Imagine banning a chemical that we all make in our bodies. But thats exactly where drug war logic takes us and why testosterone is Schedule III on the Controlled Substances Act, alongside ketamine an

Psychedelics are not exactly taking the same path that cannabis has taken to the mainstream, but there are some similarities. In the late 90s and early aughts, when medical cannabis was first startin

On this episode, Narcotica co-hosts Zachary Siegel, Chris Moraff and Troy Farah interview each other, riffing on one question: Is the drug war getting better Or worse? They cover everything from nita

Harm reduction programs like syringe access, supervised consumption or even just handing out condoms on the street, can be some of the only access to healthcare some people encounter. Definitely not a