Donate

Entheogens

In this April 13, 2010, photo, one gram of psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms, is seen on a scale at New York University in New York. 

This Canadian company is betting big on the ‘psychedelic renaissance’

Health & Medicine

Psygen, a psychedelics startup in Calgary, predicts that a robust psychedelics industry is right around the corner. But the drugs remain illegal in Canada and the US, both early investment hotspots.

Israeli company says its developed medical marijuana strain that won’t get you high

Health & Medicine

The Malleable Mind

Environment

Tobacco’s Shifting Burden: From the Rich to the Poor

Health & Medicine

Israeli Company Removes THC for New Medicinal Marijuana

Conflict & Justice

Foreigners Banned from Marijuana Cafes in the Netherlands

A judge in the Netherlands has approved a government plan to prevent foreigners from entering cannabis cafes. Anna Holligan is a reporter for our partner the BBC.

Your Take: How Do You Quit Smoking?

Today is “World No Tobacco Day” and we are asking you how you quit smoking. Listeners have been weighing in: Victoria Heuer writes on Facebook: My quit day was Dec. 14, last. I was sick of being controlled by the addiction, sick of the money and guilt it took to continue smoking, knowing that every […]

Cannabis, O Canada

It will soon be legal to grow hemp once again in Canada. Next month, the federal government in Ottawa is expected to approve a type of the cannabis plant to be cultivated for its fiber only. Hemp has been outlawed in Canada since the 1930’s because of fears that its cultivation would encourage use of […]

The World

FABULOUS FUNGI

Commentator Sy Montgomery praises mushrooms despite their sometimes sullied reputation.

The World

Industrial Hemp Harvest in Deutschland

Newly legalized, textile mills are processing the country’s first modern harvest of industrial hemp. Michael Lawton reports from Germany on the new varieties of the crop, which cannot be made into marijuana, and the forecast for the multi-purpose crop’s financial success.