Check out my conversation with @HamiltonMorris on psychedelics, false memories, and more now out on YouTube! youtu.be/BuszGenKaxc?si=jDSW…

One of the reasonable points that Oliver made is that postmortem toxicology don't always test for kratom alkaloids and their metabolites, it should have been emphasized that the number of deaths attributed solely to 7-hydroxymitragynine is almost impossibly low. If this low number is a product of inadequate testing, more study needs to be done to estimate the incidence of 7-hydroxymitragynine-associated deaths relative to population exposure. Policy decisions need to be based on careful research that has yet to be done and effectively can't be done once these substances are prohibited.

Surprisingly thoughtless reporting on "gas station drugs" from @LastWeekTonight. John Oliver clips me talking to @joerogan and instead of using the joke as an opportunity to suggest reasonable regulation and labeling requirements, tacitly approves of prohibition saying, nonsensically, that it must be accompanied by "harm reduction." What would that "harm reduction" be? Pharmaceutical opioid maintenance therapies, which Oliver has also criticized?

In 2006, my friend Stephen Watt wrote a piece of computer code while high on ketamine that was used to extract credit card information from TJ Maxx and the rotisserie chicken purveyor Boston Market. For writing the code, he was sentenced to pay $170,000,000 in restitution. This is his story: youtu.be/tRfzvpySDws?si=Bkra…

I tried to cure my OCD with mushrooms. Filming The Mushroom Cure live in Boston April 10–11. @HamiltonMorris joins after each show. TheMushroomCure.com

I just released an interview with the legendary Hive bee methylman about his time working as an underground MDMA chemist: youtube.com/watch?v=owqLpbKW…

📍PRE-ORDER IS LIVE📍 Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey was originally published anonymously in 1821. It is half Dickensian memoir and half psychedelic fever dream. Thomas De Quincey, like many other English Romantics, was addicted to laudanum, a potent tincture made of opium dissolved in alcohol. This book documents his journey running away from school to meet his literary idols, discovering opium, and becoming a starved artist living in squalor and in the throes of addiction. This hardcover, illustrated edition features a new introduction by @HamiltonMorris , a renowned journalist, documentarian, and chemist who specializes in psychoactive drugs.  It is furnished with cover art, custom endpapers, and over 20 original illustrations by Hernan Conde de Boeck.  Interior book design by Sherill Chapman. This edition is limited to 3,000 copies. 9 inches tall by 6 inches wide. Estimated at around 500 pages. Page count is subject to change until printing.  Rounded spine with Smyth sewn binding and headbands. Deckled edges. Gold foiling.  Printed in the United States of America.

Interestingly, @grok is saying that the (apparently deleted?) drug price list from the Epstein files is a hoax or a meme. It's not a hoax, you can still read the document here on @jmailarchive jmail.world/drive/vol00009-e…

Two former members of Psymposia, an astroturf anti-psychedelic activist group, have come forward to describe Psymposia's work as DEA informants. Listen to my analysis here: patreon.com/posts/pod-139-ar…

I just released an interview with the chemistry educator Dave Farina of Professor Dave Explains. We discuss drug synthesis, disinformation, and political polarization in science. youtube.com/watch?v=Ca7xNMkD…

Everyone always knew the War on Drugs was never about drugs, but wow...they're not even pretending anymore! How on earth will seizing 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil combat "narco-terrorism"?