drugs

Who's the Chic Middle-Aged Drug Peddler in the NYT's MDMA Story?

Cord Jefferson · 06/21/13 07:09PM

The New York Times website just published a Style section piece on hip downtown party drug MDMA, aka "molly." Perhaps you've done molly in a sparsely furnished loft somewhere—or a cramped bathroom stall—and soon felt, as one woman described it, "very turned on—not even sexually, but you just feel really upbeat and want to dance or whatever." Or whatever.

Hamilton Nolan · 06/20/13 08:11AM

The latest California crime wave: widespread theft of Tide Detergent, which is being traded for crack. "Money laundering" joke goes here.

This Is Your Michael Cera On Drugs

Maggie Lange · 06/19/13 01:14PM

Here is the trailer for Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus, which is not a twee children's tale, but rather a road trip-drug trip movie with Michael Cera and Gabby Hoffman. It looks like so much giddy fun madcapery. And it has a great soundtrack!

Americans Have No Idea Whether Their Supplements Will Kill Them

Hamilton Nolan · 06/18/13 10:56AM

Scientific studies show that the vast majority of Americans are not doctors. That does not, however, prevent Americans from medicating themselves with "alternative" medicines and supplements, as if they were doctors. Why are we Americans so dumb?

Flatulent Cop Leads Police to 'Cannabis Factory'

Neetzan Zimmerman · 06/14/13 10:31AM

A large quantity of marijuana was found inside a residence in Leicester, England, thanks to the incessant farting of a police officer who had recently started a high-protein diet.

New Diet Drugs Still Not as Good as Pushups

Hamilton Nolan · 06/07/13 11:32AM

Today marks the arrival of two new prescription drugs designed to help Americans lose weight. For hundreds of dollars per month, clinically obese Americans will be able to purchase cutting-edge chemistry that is less effective than just taking long walks sometimes.

Hamilton Nolan · 06/05/13 03:03PM

Medical marijuana for pets.

Weed Arrests: Racist, Costly, Destructive

Hamilton Nolan · 06/04/13 10:13AM

A comprehensive new report from the ACLU about marijuana arrests in America confirms three key points: A) Weed arrests are overwhelmingly racially biased; B) Weed arrests consume an insanely large amount of money and resources; and C) Weed needs to be legalized, ASAP.

Two Anecdotes About My Parents and Marijuana

Lauren Oyler · 05/18/13 01:46PM

Last year, my boyfriend and I went to West Virginia to visit my mother while she was undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. It was the second time she’d been diagnosed in three years, and the side effects from these treatments were much worse. My previous understanding of cancer had come pretty exclusively from pastel paperbacks, all dignified vomiting and heads shaved in solidarity, but the reality seems more Dante than Nicolas Sparks. A half-joke about supplemental painkillers was soon brought, tentatively, to the table.