Category: Culture

Michael Pollan Plunges into Mescaline, Opium, and Caffeine in His New Book

Brazilian journalist Marcelo Leite reviews Michael Pollan’s takes on mescaline, opium, and caffeine in Pollan’s...

This article explores the idea of the psychedelic experience as a “double-edged sword” in the...

Through this narrative fictional account, Andrew Penn offers a literary image of underground pharmaceutical practice...

In this article, Filipe Ribeiro covers the conservation challenges surrounding kambô. The kambô frog’s secretions...

The history of transforming peyote into mescaline is a story of separating plants from people....

Jasmine Virdi interviews Jahlani Niaah, Rastafari scholar and community member, about the little-known and often...

Alex Beiner critiques a paper called Psilocybin: From Serendipity to Credibility in the journal ‘Frontiers...

This paper provides a history of the process in which mescaline was synthesized, and 100...

Jasmine Virdi interviews Nidia Olvera Hernández, a Mexican ethnohistorian, specializing in the history of psychoactive...

Amazonian communities in Colombia were hit hard and fast by the advent of Covid-19 to...