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Trump appears to have reversed on his position that drug dealers should get the death penalty by pardoning Ross Ulbricht this week.

Trump, Who Called for Death Penalty for Drug Dealers, Pardons Most Influential Drug Dealer in Human History

By Victor Tangermann

A bold new bill to allow AI chatbots to prescribe controlled drugs has been introduced into the House for review.

Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Allow AI to Replace Your Doctor, Prescribe Drugs

Flavored nitrous oxide is the newest drug to hit America's youth — and folks are developing startling side effects to it.

Kids Are Huffing Galaxy Gas Until They Get Tremors, Limps and Lose Bowel Control

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are mighty puzzled after discovering teens are abstaining from using drugs more than ever before.

Health & Medicine

Experts Startled as Teens Stop Doing Drugs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Five people have been charged in the death of Matthew Perry. A doctor that enabled his ketamine addiction called him a "moron."

A Doctor Called Matthew Perry a “Moron” While Prescribing Him Ketamine

By Frank Landymore

Mark Zuckerberg is under major fire from Congress after a recent report found that Meta has been profiting from ads for illegal drugs.

Congress Furious With Mark Zuckerberg for Making Money From Illegal Drug Ads

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite a federal investigation, Meta continues to profit from ads on Facebook and Instagram selling cocaine and other illicit drugs.

Gangster Mark Zuckerberg Running Facebook Ads for Drugs Found To Be Laced With Fentanyl

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook users in America have been coming upon ads for an addictive drug that's banned in several countries.

Facebook Is Running Ads for an Addictive Drug That’s Banned in Numerous Countries

By Sharon Adarlo

An ML researcher is claiming to have knowledge of kinky drug-fueled orgies linked to OpenAI in Silicon Valley's storied hacker houses.

Machine Learning

Machine Learning Researcher Links OpenAI to Drug-Fueled Sex Parties

By Noor Al-Sibai

Abuse of ketamine has been implicated in young people experiencing bladder issues that are commonly associated with older people.

RX and Medicine

Ketamine Is Destroying Young People’s Bladders

By Sharon Adarlo

Employees being inebriated on the job has long been a workplace hazard — but according to one boss, it's a non-issue.

Boss Says He Doesn’t Care at All If Employees Do Drugs at Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

As next-generation weight-loss treatments like Wegovy fly off the shelves, scientists are working on an exercise pill.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Working on Pill You Can Take Instead of Exercising

By Noor Al-Sibai

The team behind a promising new menopause treatment says they want to empower women to choose when — or even if — they go through menopause.

Scientists Working on Drug to Indefinitely Delay Menopause

By Noor Al-Sibai

Prosecutors are looking into whether Meta profited from ad sales for regulated drugs and the shady telehealth services that pushed them.

Feds Investigating Whether Meta Profited From “Illicit” Drug Sales

By Noor Al-Sibai

New reporting claims that people close to Elon Musk became so concerned about drug use that they asked the billionaire to go to rehab.

Elon Musk Was Reportedly Asked to Go to Rehab

By Jon Christian

A new version of the Olympics Games that allows athletes to use performance enhancing drugs recently scored funding from Peter Thiel.

Peter Thiel Funding New Olympics Where Athletes Can Take Performance Enhancing Drugs

By Sharon Adarlo

During the Trump administration, the White House's personal pharmacy operated as a glorified pill mill, a new watchdog report claims.

RX and Medicine

Unregulated White House Pharmacy Gave Out Uppers and Downers to Senior Staff Under Trump

By Noor Al-Sibai

Following a week of continuing fallout about Elon Musk's alleged use of illegal drugs, NASA has responded.

NASA Responds to Elon Musk Drug Allegations

By Noor Al-Sibai

There could well be someone out there whose job it is to collect Elon Musk's urine for government drug testing — and we have questions.

We’d Like to See the Chain of Custody on Elon Musk’s Pee After the Drug Allegations

By Noor Al-Sibai

"Friends" actor Matthew Perry, who was undergoing ketamine treatment at the time of his death, had high levels of the drug in his body.

Matthew Perry Was Undergoing Ketamine Treatment at Time of Ketamine-Linked Death

By Sharon Adarlo

In a show of the benefits of harm reduction, a volunteer overdose counselor describes her experiences talking to people who may die.

Health & Medicine

Incredible Hotline Counsels Drug Users Through Potential Overdoses Without Shame

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Food and Drug Administration just approved the first topical erectile dysfunction drug in the US that works within just ten minutes.

RX and Medicine

FDA Approves First Erectile Dysfunction Gel That Doesn’t Require a Prescription

By Frank Landymore

Recovered human hairs provide the first direct evidence that prehistoric Europeans were fond of consuming psychoactive rugs like scopolamine.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover That Ancient Humans Were Tripping Balls in a Cave

By Frank Landymore

One guy took more than 40,000 ecstasty pills over the course of nine years and lived to tell the tale — and his story has become a cautionary party legend.

Neuroscience and Brain

Doctors Fascinated by Man Who Took 40,000 Ecstasy Pills and Experienced Years of Terrible Symptoms

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ex-child star and pop singer Aaron Carter was only 34 when he died last weekend — and now, newly-released details suggest that he may have overdosed.

Coroner Defers Naming Aaron Carter Cause of Death Until Toxicology Report

By Noor Al-Sibai

It looks like the DALL-E Mini image generator really can conjure up anything — including hilarious and bizarre depictions of drug use.

Artificial Intelligence

That Viral DALL-E AI Is Great at Generating Images of Drugs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Science is finally backing up what stoners have long known: that smoking weed does, in fact, make you nicer — and less greedy to boot.

Health & Medicine

Smoking Weed Makes You Nicer and Less Greedy, Scientist Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two researchers and psychiatrists published research about taken from an AI's interpretation of almost 7,000 psychedelic trip reports written by users.

Artificial Intelligence

Poor AI Has To Suffer Listening to People Describing Their Drug Experiences

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Thousands of people worldwide are using meth in Zoom chats and other social platforms. Here's why legislators need to watch.

Health & Medicine

Tons of People Are Doing Meth on Zoom for Bleak Reasons

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists say that smoking weed as a teen ain't no thang, but if you're still using it into adulthood, it's probably not great.

If You’re Still Smoking Weed at 30, Scientists Have Bad News

By Noor Al-Sibai

DARE, the drug education program started in the 80s, told TMZ this week that Euphoria is glamorizing drugs and wants to collab with HBO on its message.

DARE, Which Apparently Still Exists, Is Furious at a TV Show for Dumb Reasons

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Eating edibles may have adverse effects on testicles, a new study suggests.

Bad News: Scientists Say Eating Too Many Edibles May Make Your Balls Shrivel Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk apparently doesn't think drugs are cool anymore.

Elon Musk Hates Drugs Now, Apparently

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers are developing a lifesaving automatic Narcan injector that may bring harm reduction into the world of medtech.

Prosthetics and Devices

Wearable for Opioid Users Injects Narcan If You Overdose

By Noor Al-Sibai

Canadian researchers have created an AI that predicts new designer drugs in order to help cops crack down on them.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Create Narc Neural Network to Help Cops Predict New Designer Drugs

By Noor Al-Sibai

People peed so many party drugs into a local river at the 2019 Glastonbury music festival that the water became dangerous for local, protected eels.

Festival Goers Did So Many Drugs That Their Pee Harmed Local Fish

By Dan Robitzski

Governor Gavin Newsom requested permission from the federal government to use tax money via Medicaid to pay people with addictions to stay sober.

California May Pay People With Addiction to Stay Sober

By Tony Ho Tran

A new survey revealed shockingly high rates of substance use disorders, primarily for alcohol and marijuana, among young adults with ADHD.

Health & Medicine

Study: One in Two Young Adults With ADHD Also Had a Substance Use Disorder

By Dan Robitzski

Research shows that smoking weed can significantly impair people's vision but that only a small percentage of people acknowledge that fact while high.

Weed Absolutely Wrecks Your Vision, According to New Research

By Dan Robitzski

Despite widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines, people in the US are still trying to track down drugs that weren't designed to treat COVID symptoms.

Good God, Please Do Not Take Ivermectin to Treat COVID-19

By Victor Tangermann

A man tried to treat his bipolar disorder with psychedelic mushrooms. But after he injected instead of eating them, the shrooms grew inside his bloodstream.

A Man Injected Himself With Mushrooms and the Fungi Took Over His Blood

By Dan Robitzski

The activist group DC Marijuana Justice plans to hands out free bags of weed to people who get the coronavirus vaccine in Washington D.C.

Activists Plan to Hand Out Free Weed at DC Vaccination Sites

By Dan Robitzski

Oregon just became the first state in the country to decriminalize the possession of all drugs, including small amounts of heroin and cocaine.

Oregon Is Decriminalizing Drugs Including Heroin and Meth

By Victor Tangermann

The City Council of Ann Arbor, Michigan, just unanimously voted to decriminalize all psychedelic plants and mushrooms, citing potential health benefits.

A City in Michigan Just Decriminalized Magic Mushrooms

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists: Super High Potency Weed Doesn’t Really Get You Higher

RX and Medicine

Scientists: Super High Potency Weed Doesn’t Really Get You Higher

By Dan Robitzski

A new study on people taking psilocybin revealed the biological mechanisms responsible for feelings of bliss associated with the drug.

RX and Medicine

Neuroscientists: This Is How Shrooms Break Down Your Sense of Self

By Dan Robitzski

A Canadian startup called Anahit Therapeutics is trying to get ahead of the psilocybin legalization curve by building cultivation facilities in Jamaica.

This Startup is Building a Huge Magic Mushroom Farm in Jamaica

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that marijuana use makes people more susceptible to believing a false memory, a troubling development for the legal system.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Research: Marijuana Can Lead to False Memory Formation

By Dan Robitzski

Waymo workers have told The Verge that passengers keep shooting up in the company's self-driving cars and leaving their used needles behind.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Workers: People Keep Injecting Drugs in Self-Driving Cars

By Kristin Houser

The FDA just sent a torrent of letters warning there's no evidence that CBD use has the medical benefits that companies claim, and it's in fact dangerous.

FDA Cracks Down on CBD, Saying It Has “Real Risks”

By Dan Robitzski

A comprehensive new study confirms that the American life expectancy has been dropping for years and that the problem is broader than expected.

The American Life Expectancy Is Now Falling Due to Drugs, Suicide

By Dan Robitzski

The reports, obtained from police Nevada, describe an environment in which workers have repeatedly left meth, cocaine and heroin out in the open.

Police Reports: Meth, Heroin, Cocaine Found at Tesla Factory

By Jon Christian

NASA required SpaceX to undergo review to make sure workers weren't getting high after Elon Musk smoked weed. But, inexcplicably, NASA paid for it.

Science & Energy

NASA Paid $5 Million to Make Sure SpaceX Workers Don’t Smoke Weed

By Dan Robitzski

An AP investigation shows that a troubling number of CBD products are spiked with synthetic marijuana, which can cause comas, psychotic behavior, and death.

Some CBD Tainted With Substance That Causes Death, Comas, Insanity

By Dan Robitzski

Right now, money is pouring into the drinkable weed industry, despite ever-changing regulations and a seemingly-nonexistant consumer base for weed drinks.

Alcohol Companies Want to Make Disgusting Weed Drinks

By Dan Robitzski

Federal agents used postage bought online to track down two dark web drug dealers selling methamphetamine they marketed as Adderall.

Feds Bust Dark Web Drug Dealers After They Buy Postage Online

By Kristin Houser

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Health & Medicine

This NAD+ Supplement Takes the Fight Against Aging to the Cellular Level

By Futurism Creative

Mexico's new president has a plan to decriminalize all illegal drugs — and he's hopeful the United States will follow his lead.

Mexico Wants the United States to Decriminalize All Drugs

By Kristin Houser

Denver became the first city in the US to decriminalize psilocybin, a compound with hallucinogenic properties that occurs in some "magic mushrooms."

Denver Becomes First U.S. City to Decriminalize “Magic Mushrooms”

By Jon Christian

Denver, Colorado, may soon decriminalize the personal use of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, making it the first place in the U.S. to consider doing so.

Denver Is Voting on Whether to Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms

By Dan Robitzski

A new study on the cognitive effects of microdosing finds that it can alleviate depression and stress but doesn't have the profound effects people expect.

Health & Medicine

First Rigorous Study: Microdosing Fights Depression, Improves Focus

By Dan Robitzski

A recent phase II clinical trial showed evidence that MDMA treatment, in addition to psychotherapy, might be able to help people with PTSD.

Health & Medicine

MDMA Therapy Eliminated PTSD Symptoms In 76 Percent of Patients

By Dan Robitzski

Did An Acid Trip Change Your Life? Scientists Want To Know About It

Neuroscience and Brain

Did An Acid Trip Change Your Life? Scientists Want To Know About It

By Dan Robitzski

The Newly-Passed Right To Try Act Is Redundant And Risky

Health & Medicine

The Newly-Passed Right To Try Act Is Redundant And Risky

By Dan Robitzski