This academic article reveals how criminalizing the opium poppy turned medicine into crisis—and how legal cultivation could end the opioid epidemic once and for all. Lessons from Portugal, Switzerland, and history show: prohibition kills, cultivation heals.
In the lab, acetylation is about as ordinary as boiling water. It’s the simple process of attaching a tiny chemical tag — an acetyl group — onto a molecule. Chemists do it every day to change how substances behave: aspirin is made that way, cellulose acetate for film and plastics too, even your own cells…
The real reason that drugs are increasingly hard to get isn’t safety – it’s soul-sucking, joyless, smug Karens. Prohibition should be known as “Karen’s Laws.”
As summer appropriations season kicked off, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee quietly dropped a bombshell in its report on the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs (MilConVA) spending bill: Maybe let veterans use cannabis and psychedelics. The July 21, 2025 report acknowledges that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has concurred with a Department of Health and Human Services…
Why We Must Re-Legalize Nature. The war on drugs didn’t stop with powder in baggies or pills in bottles. It’s crept into gardens, forests, and the weeds growing in your backyard. The plant Solanum nigrum — commonly dismissed as “poisonous nightshade” — is one of countless examples of nature vilified by policy, not by truth….
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was created by President Richard Nixon in 1973, born out of a controversial political climate marked by racial tensions and fear-driven propaganda. Its stated purpose was to enforce controlled substance laws and bring drug trafficking to its knees. Yet, half a century later, the DEA stands as an enduring monument…
If you would like to try recreational drugs, you don’t need the DEA. If you wouldn’t – you don’t need the DEA. It’s time to re-evaluate our approach to drug prohibition.
Imagine being sentenced to more years in prison for having a plant than someone who raped a child. This isn’t a hypothetical situation — it already happened. It’s a feature – not a bug – of the modern American justice system. For decades, the United States has treated nonviolent drug offenses as if they were…
Imagine going to a pain specialist because your body feels like it’s on fire—and walking out with a prescription meant for heroin detox. That’s not care. That’s surrender. In the last few years, pain management has morphed into risk management. Not for the patient—for the doctor. The result? A growing number of pain clinics now…
Not long ago, anyone could walk into a store and buy a bottle of laudanum—opium dissolved in alcohol—without a prescription. Bayer sold heroin through the Sears and Roebuck catalog. For a quarter dollar, they would ship it straight to your door – with syringes. It wasn’t perfect. Addiction was rampant. Labels were vague. However, people…