Post Overview
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Current Event
6 years ago+2 2 0California Lawmakers Want Twitter Bots Branded With Disclaimers
Two pending laws will change the way Silicon Valley manages non-human social media accounts.
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6 years ago+20 20 0Teens Should Stay Far, Far Away from E-Cigarettes
"While they may be beneficial to adults as a form of harm reduction, kids should not be using them at all.”
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6 years ago+15 15 0Here’s What It Would Take to Get Medical Marijuana Covered by Your Insurance
News out of Canada got us thinking.
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6 years ago+6 6 0Research Suggests Psychedelic Drugs Can Improve Mental Health, But There's a Catch
A growing body of research suggests a psychedelic drugs anxiety link, but we're still learning how they work and dealing with laws against their use
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6 years ago+2 2 0How Ken Layne Created a Publishing Oasis in a Desert Town of 8,000 People
Ken Layne's quarterly magazine, Desert Oracle, tries to give readers a sense of the profound solitude—and weirdness—of the Mojave Desert.
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6 years ago+1 1 0Scientists Gave Monkeys Ayahuasca and It Helped Their Depression
About a third of people still don’t respond to treatment, so researchers are looking to alternatives like ayahuasca.
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6 years ago+2 2 0Blood and Guts Aren't the Hardest Part of Cleaning a Crime Scene
"You're able to make observations that put together the last hours of someone's life."
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6 years ago+14 14 0The Myth of What’s Driving the Opioid Crisis
Doctor-prescribed painkillers are not the biggest threat.
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6 years ago+3 3 0First Supervised Inhalation Site Opens in North America | The Fix
It's not just about allowing someone to use drugs more safely—it’s about building a trusting relationship with users, humanizing them and encouraging them to seek treatment when they’re ready.
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6 years ago+13 13 050 great Mitch Hedberg jokes on what would've been his 50th birthday | City Pages
No one looked, dressed, talked, or acted like Mitch Hedberg.
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6 years ago+1 1 0These Guys Plan to Beam High-Speed Internet to Los Angeles From the Top of a Nearby Hill
The Los Angeles Community Broadband Project plans to use advances in wireless tech to compete with big telecom and connect the masses.
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6 years ago+8 8 0Americans Invented Modern Life. Now We’re Using Opioids to Escape It.
The scale and darkness of this epidemic is a sign of a civilization in a more acute crisis than we knew.
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6 years ago+13 13 0Weed Seems to Protect Your Liver From the Effects of Hard Drinking
Marijuana FTW.
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6 years ago+1 1 0Inside the Mind of the Countess of Psychedelic Science
If LSD is having its renaissance, 75-year-old English countess Amanda Feilding is its Michelangelo.
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6 years ago+6 6 0The Psychedelic Tale of Terence McKenna's Forgotten Music About DMT
In collaboration with the synth explorers Zuvuya, the "Timothy Leary of the 90s" made two albums nearly as hallucinatory as the psychedelic substance that drove his work.
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6 years ago+9 9 0What some reporters get wrong about the First Amendment
THE FIRST AMENDMENT is having a moment. It earned a C+ on a recent report card from the Newseum Institute. It’s the beating heart behind The Post, about the publication of the Pentagon Papers. And it’s the through-line that connects countless controv ...
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6 years ago+13 13 0The Scientific Explanation for Why Edibles Get You So High
And how to avoid a bad edibles experience.
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6 years ago+2 2 0After New York Sues Opioid Manufacturers, Drug Policy Experts Warn That Legal Action Won’t Save…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear filed lawsuits last week against several pharmaceutical…
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6 years ago+17 17 0Smoking One Cigarette a Day Is Way Worse than Experts Thought
So much for smoking in moderation.
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Current Event
6 years ago+1 1 0Scientists Just Broke the Technical Barrier to Cloning Primates, Including Humans
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences used the same cloning method used to create Dolly the sheep to clone two long-tailed macaques for the first time.