Not Many See Past Your “Drug” Label
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Human beings are social creatures – we understand the world around us through our interpretation of the world. This interpretation…
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Breaking Convention 2023: Has the ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’ Exhaled?
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Over three sunny days in April and at the University of Exeter’s campus, I attended Breaking Convention, Europe’s largest conference…
How Women Self-Organise: The Birth of Street and Antiprohibition Feminism
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TalkingDrugs has partnered with Luana Malheiro, anthropologist and drugs researcher from Brazil, to bring to life her insights from her extensive research with…
Becoming a Woman Who Uses Crack: Breaking Silences in Brazil
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TalkingDrugs has partnered with Luana Malheiro, anthropologist and drugs researcher from Brazil, to bring to life her insights from her…
Shlyapa I Bayan: 10 Years of Publishing Underground Drug News in Russia
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Almost 10 years ago, the first issue of the newspaper "Hat and Bayan" was published. This newspaper, which literally became…
Natalya Kaluzhskaya: “In Mariupol, people were dying because there were no medicines and they were in a state of withdrawal”
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DUNews, a documentary film studio covering the life of the community of people who use drugs, has been off the…
Owning My Pleasure – An exploration of Narcofeminism
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“I don’t want a woman who takes drugs.” Over the past 10 years of being a drug user, I have…
Electric Dreams: Using AI to Imagine Drug Using Spaces
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AI-assisted art has been taking the world by storm, providing a new world-building method that leverages the width of the…
“Prison becomes your home”: The Futility of Cannabis Incarcerations
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Cannabis is subjected to condemnation, disapproval, and bad press. Whether this depiction is fair or not is contested; nonetheless, what…
“Let’s stop strategies that don’t work!”: Interview with Paula Aguirre, Director of Elementa
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Continuing a collaboration with Proyecto Soma, TalkingDrugs has had privileged access to high figures within the Latin American drug policy…
Could Opium Gum be the Solution to the Overdose Crisis?
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The prohibitionist regime surrounding the adult use of drugs has had devastating impacts on individuals, communities, and entire regions, spurring…
What Role does Philosophy Play in the Future of Psychedelics?
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TalkingDrugs interviewed Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, one of the leading philosophers connecting the thought and practice around psychedelics with philosophical understandings of…