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Owning My Pleasure – An exploration of Narcofeminism

Jessica Spratt

Feb 9, 2023

“I don’t want a woman who takes drugs.” Over the past 10 years of being a drug user, I have…

Drug Policy Other Drugs

Kratom’s Regulation in Czechia Promises More Market Safety for the Drug

André Gomes

Feb 9, 2023

Kratom, the psychoactive plant originally from southeast Asia, is on the cusp of legal regulation in Czechia, also known as…

Drug Policy Other Drugs Psychedelics

Lessons on Psychedelic Evangelism from the UK Counterculture of the 60s

Himesh Mehta

Feb 2, 2023

At a recent activism event advocating for the medical utility of psychedelic drugs, I heard a member of a psychedelic…

Other Drugs

Cruel and Unusual: The Ethics of Using Drugs to Kill

Emily Heron

Dec 6, 2022

Maya Foa, joint Executive Director at NGO Reprieve, has described the death penalty as the “sharp end of a series…

Drug Harm Reduction Drug Policy Other Drugs

What Can New Zealand Learn from Bhutan’s Tobacco Ban?

Taylor Norris

Nov 15, 2022

Conversations on neo-prohibitionist policy banning tobacco sales are becoming more and more frequent. After Turkmenistan and Bhutan, New Zealand will…

Drug Harm Reduction Drug Policy Opioids Other Drugs

The Vending Machine Saving Lives in Ohio

Anonymous

Nov 1, 2022

Since early last year, a vending machine in the US state of Ohio has provided crucial harm reduction supplies to…

Drug Harm Reduction Other Drugs

We Asked the Experts: What Exactly is in Ketamine?

André Gomes

Aug 18, 2022

Ketamine was first synthesised in 1962 and has had an interesting history both within the “legitimate” medical world, and more…

What Role does Philosophy Play in the Future of Psychedelics?

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes & Andre Gomes

Aug 9, 2022

TalkingDrugs interviewed Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, one of the leading philosophers connecting the thought and practice around psychedelics with philosophical understandings of…