Finding The Sweet Spot: At 62 I Had My First Dose Of Psilocybin At Johns Hopkins

A research program was seeking volunteers with a spiritual background to ingest a hallucinogen.


Cosmo Feilding Mellen: Interview with a Sunshine Maker

1960's. Two men. One goal. Turn the world on to LSD. An Interview with The SunShine Makers director, Cosmo Feilding Mellen.


Globalhuasca: A Closer Look at the Global Ayahuasca Movement

Many of us are well-meaning in our engagement with plant medicines, but we cannot disregard the real-world impact that our actions inevitably have, regardless of intent.


Globalhuasca: Reciprocity and Integration of Indigenous and Scientific Worldviews

Even if we don't necessarily share religious, spiritual, or mythological assumptions, are we able to reconcile between such seemingly different and antagonistic worldviews?


Psychedelics Can’t be Tested Using Conventional Clinical Trials

Should these drugs become part of medicine cabinets from San Francisco to America’s heartland, it will be high time to develop drug tests that control for the cultural diversity of this country’s doctors and patients.


Caraballo & Norzi’s new film ‘Icaros: A Vision’ reinvents the aesthetic of psychedelics on screen.

Icaros: A Vision opens Friday, May 19th 2017 at Metrograph in NYC, followed by a national rollout in several cities in the U.S. and overseas.


I was an MDMA manufacturer in the ’80s. Then fled the country as a fugitive for 20 years. | Part 1

This is part 1 of a 3-part series that follows the story of scientist, chemist, and fugitive, Robert Widdowson. During the 1980's Widdowson manufactured the MDMA analogue MDHA in Santa Fe, New Mexico until he was arrested and charged under the Federal Analogues Act. This is his story.


I was an MDMA manufacturer in the ’80s. Then fled the country as a fugitive for 20 years. | Part 2

This is part 2 of a 3-part series that follows the story of scientist, chemist, and fugitive, Robert Widdowson. During the 1980's Widdowson manufactured the MDMA analogue MDHA in Santa Fe, New Mexico until he was arrested and charged under the Federal Analogues Act.


I was an MDMA manufacturer in the ’80s. Then fled the country as a fugitive for 20 years. | Part 3

This is part 3 of a 3-part series that follows the story of scientist, chemist, and fugitive, Robert Widdowson. During the 1980's Widdowson manufactured the MDMA analogue MDHA in Santa Fe, New Mexico until he was arrested and charged under the Federal Analogues Act.


4 Reasons Why The U.S. Needs to Decriminalize Drugs, And Why We’re Closer Than You Think

There’s an emerging public, political, and scientific consensus that otherwise-law-abiding people should not be arrested simply for using or possessing a drug.