Category: Health and Medicine

Making Mushrooms Legal

By Aída Chávez The Nation After 50 years of prohibition, some states are starting to challenge the federal government’s policy on psychedelic drugs. In November 2020, voters in Oregon passed a pair of historic drug policy ballot measures. The first was Measure 110, a proposal to decriminalize low-level […]

How the Drug War Dies

By Maia Szalavitz The Nation Just a few decades ago, the left and the right, politicians and the public, universally embraced the criminalization of drug use. But a new consensus has emerged. Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson was raised by a single mother in a Baltimore housing project. […]

Who Will Be Held Accountable for Covid?

This week, Briahna spoke to National Affairs correspondent for the Nation & associate editor of The Capital Times about his latest book, Coronavirus Criminals & Pandemic Profiteers. An account of how elected leadership & the pharmaceutical industry failed to prevent preventable deaths, the book serves as a blueprint […]

Who Wants War with Russia?

By Philip Giraldi The neocons and their allies might be making it happen Well, the genie is well and truly out of the bottle and there is no easy way to encourage it to return. Thanks to a relentless flow of propaganda, the American public has become increasingly […]