Vancouver’s more than a dozen illegal mushroom and psychedelics dispensaries are becoming tourist attractions. With garish, deliberately indiscreet shopfronts, it’s no wonder. But how are they getting away with it?

My first for Thrillist

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Striking to look back at how alcohol was glorified in the UK during the peak booze era - while far less harmful drugs, like ecstasy, were demonised. Today, 10,000 people die a year from drinking; very few die from MDMA

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Crazy scenes, four years ago at a Black Lives Matter protest in London. Example of the police arguably causing more trouble by attempting to disperse a crowd than doing nothing

“Investments in the alchemy of the creative process do not perform well in quarterly reports.”

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This just in: British Columbia is part U-turning on its drug decriminalization plan to save lives, in an attempt to reduce widespread public drug use

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From Columbia law professor David Pozen: Do Americans have a constitutional right to use drugs? time.com/6971081/697108…

The mother of a woman with severe epilepsy has sold her house after spending all of her family’s savings on £2,000 a month private prescriptions for medical cannabis

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In which a board member of a luxury psychedelic retreat company ($8,000 per person) invokes the moral authority of shamanism to denounce recreational ketamine users

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Dubbed the “narco-toffs” by their peers, there has always been a section of the British upper class that has incorporated copious drug taking alongside the more traditional society pursuits of hunting, shooting and fishing.
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The pursuit of the perfect penis. For Men's Health UK, I met the men using tech to forge stronger, longer and younger willies

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Horse tranq, medical anaesthetic, drug du jour in student halls, now therapy. Ketamine, drug of the dissociation generation, is mainstreaming its way into pop culture

But people are becoming dependent and sustained use has serious, bladder-busting harms

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Ketamine has proven its therapeutic value and become wildly popular in the underground in recent years. 🌊

But what are the hidden dangers of misuse, the ethical debates in practice, and the trickle-down effect for users? 🌪️

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Given how often it rains in Vancouver, seems fairly mean-spirited that the bus stops generally do not come with shelters Metro Vancouver

Cali loves shrooms, that much is known. But did you know that there’s a magic mushroom church (which I visited last year) in California with a whopping 100,000 members? Zide Door is founded by Dave Hodges, who believes shrooms and cannabis are divine sacraments which facilitate

I visited Teesside cannabis social club in England and wrote this for TalkingDrugs on the fractured state of the country's recreational cannabis legalization campaign

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Congratulations to the 2024 cohort of Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellows!

The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship offers ten $10,000 reporting grants per year to journalists reporting in-depth print and audio stories on the science, policy,

British Cannabis Social Clubs were buzzing in the past - but a mix of the pandemic and police crackdowns have closed many down.

Legal medical cannabis and greater patient advocacy has breathed fresh air into these spaces.

✍️ Mattha Louis Busby
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Opponents of casino smoking enlisting shareholders of gambling companies in push to end the practice tinyurl.com/44pwrxss

A seemingly well-intentioned initiative – an addiction risk score – is a dystopian hint of the future technopoly

'Via NarxCare, most Americans now have an opaque equivalent of a controlled substance credit score, which they often don’t even know exists'