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Richard Nixon Privately Admitted Marijuana Was 'Not Particularly Dangerous'

The recordings demonstrate yet again that drug warriors always knew marijuana wasn't that bad—they just didn't care.

Reason

Internet Archive preserves and releases 1980s PC radio show that interviewed legends including Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Timothy Leary, and Jack Tramiel

The Famous Computer Cafe aired in California in the early 1980s.

PC Gamer

Congress 'Can Regulate Virtually Anything'

How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause

Reason

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"I’ve died three times through my own self-abuse." From helping shape industrial metal to hanging up on Stanley Kubrick and being Timothy Leary's drug guinea pig, Ministry's Al Jourgensen reflects on 40 years of madness and music

Ministry might be looking to bow out after their next album, but they leave behind one of metal's most colourful and event-filled legacies. We asked frontman Al Jourgensen to look back on his life

Metal Hammer

Review: Tripping on Utopia Complicates the History of Psychedelics

Mind-altering drugs have long been seen as tools for both liberation and control.

Reason

Can psychedelics treat narcissism?

Psychedelics have a reputation for humbling people, but "hallucinogenic elitism" is also common. What gives?

Salon

‘Long-lost best friends’: the longevity movement finds psychedelics

The mental-health benefits of psychedelics are a draw for a growing community of people committed to reversing ageing

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The Psychedelic Renaissance Is Here

Inside the gathering of the scientists, psychonauts, capitalists, and comedians committed to mainstreaming psychedelics without repeating the errors of the 1960s.

Reason

“We didn’t arrive on a magic carpet. He was a little heartbroken over that… his followers gathered outside and they were close to stoning us”: the Moody Blues’ weirdest fans

During prog’s earliest days, their 1968 US tour saw them treated like messiahs, aliens and harbingers of doom - and left them terrified

Louder

Chemical adventurers: the science of the mind has a long, colourful history of psychedelic exploration

There is a delirious moment in the 1988 documentary Cane Toads: An Unnatural History when a back-lit hippie explains that consuming mescaline allowed Native Americans to see the world through the eyes of the cactus. It is the same when people imbibe the skin secretions of the toad, he mumbles,…

The Conversation

The psychedelic tale of when Ministry's Al Jourgensen helped William Burroughs with an issue in his garden

This story is a must-read if you’re having problems with raccoons

Metal Hammer

A Bali ban, a new Duke, and the loveliest Greek island – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Review: Antero Alli's Low-Budget Psychedelic Naturalism

Tracer takes mind control to a new level.

Reason

Psychedelics researchers balance trippyness with scientific rigor after history of legal and cultural controversy – podcast

As research into psychedelics and their medical uses makes a comeback, scientists are having to deal with the legacy – both scientific and social – of a 40-year nearly total freeze on psychedelics research.

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The astonishing story of a drug lab in mid Wales which supplied the world becomes a musical

Operation Julie tells the tale of the biggest drugs bust Wales has ever seen

Benzinga

Book List: What Are The Best Books About Psychedelics?

This article was originally published on Goldleaf and appears here with permission.

Benzinga

Do Psychedelics Make You More Liberal Or Left-Wing? New Research Debunks Decades-Old Myths

There is a common misconception regarding psychedelics like psilocybin: it is often thought that they tend to liberalize us, make us more prone to left-leaning ideas (i.e. ecology, egalitarianism, open borders). But a recent anthropological study demonstrates evidence that shows something quite different. So let’s dive into the proverbial garbage…

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Guide to classics: the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Since it was first published in English in 1927, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has proved to be the most popular book on Tibetan Buddhism in the Western world. At present, there are at least 21 translations in multiple languages and formats. There are also multiple expert commentaries, ranging…

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