This is an amazing article. It discusses social orders, their drugs, and the music they spawned. It shows the beautiful feedback loop that results from all this. It lacks one critical piece of information: what's happening currently with experimental drugs whose names and natures aren't known outside of readers of Shulgin or Bluelight.

Medical practitioners have a relatively high rate of suicide. Death entry data for doctors who died by suicide or undetermined cause between 1979 and 1995 in England and Wales were used to compare methods used for suicide by doctors with those used by the general population. Methods used were analysed according to gender, occupational status and speciality, to assess the extent to which access to dangerous means influences the pattern of suicide.

The caretakers of erowid discuss their topic well.

the paper by Evans et al. suggests that antidepressant treatment may have positive effects on natural killer cell activity in cells isolated from individuals infected with HIV with and without depression. (linked via http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_si

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Yakov Spektor, a New York-based attorney, combed through two decades of US Supreme Court opinions "to discern certain trends in the Court's treatment of various issues" related to the War on Drugs. The collection of opinions are organized by case, author

There are a bewildering array of wines throughout the world. Most wine grapes grow well in a particular geographic region, while others can grow wherever there is a tiny amount of soil and water. Consult our extensive list of red wines and white wines whe

Howto make super potent catnip to get your cat fucked to all hell.

Guy wins award for posting incriminating documents about the ongoing Zyprexa case. The award's sponsor? Eli Lilly.

To find out that Sagan smoked pot and that Anne Druyan is a director of NORML makes me gush. I love you Carl, and miss you so.

A look inside the brains of fucked-up mice.

Gizmodo reviews the Volcano. My life is complete.

The $35-billion market value of U.S.-grown cannabis tops that of such heartland staples as corn and hay, a marijuana activist says.

A study has found that marijuana use does not indicate future drug and alcohol abuse.

Cat on LSD.

If there were a pill you could take after experiencing a painful or traumatic event that would permanently weaken your memory of what had just happened, would you take it?

On modafinil, a 24 hour day, and the future fate of sleep.

The substance, dubbed opiorphin, may spawn a new generation of natural painkillers that relieve pain as well as morphine but without the addictive and psychological side effects of the traditional drug.

An article about experimental psychosis and LSD.