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The power of psychedelics is that they can reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime. —Sam Harris For until this morning I had known

  One conclusion was forced upon my mind at that time, and my impression of its truth has ever since remained unshaken. It is that our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call

Major League Baseball is currently in its 140th season. Over 210,000 Major League Baseball games have been played over the decades. How many of those games do you think were thrown by pitchers under the

All artwork herein by the wonderful Pineal Colada. Buy her work here. A sensation of well-being and renewed life flowed through me. Breakfast tasted delicious and gave me extraordinary pleasure. When I

All of the classic psychedelic drugs are placed in Schedule I of the Controlled Substance Act. This means they cannot be used in medicine and allegedly have "a high potential for abuse," "no

Above is a photo of the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist. It is a cracker made in a factory and contains thirteen calories, two grams of carbohydrates, and a quarter of a gram of protein. Per the doctrine

Hello, fellow Steemians. My name is Andrew Joseph and I am a lawyer and a writer. Primarily, I write about psychedelic drugs. This is not my first post on Steemit, but I had yet failed to do my customary

The following is a transcript of a talk I gave on Thursday, May 24th, 2018 at the Exploring Psychedelics conference in Ashland, Oregon. The talk was entitled "Prohibition, the Constitution, and the

A friend told me a story recently. For about a six-month period, his first thought upon waking and his last thought before sleeping was about killing himself. This was the latter third of a roughly

In 1966, Willis W. Harmon et al. completed one of the most fascinating and important studies in all of psychology. It is also one of the most overlooked and underappreciated. So I will share it with you

Opioid overdose deaths are climbing sharply in the United States. In 1999, a 'mere' 4,000 people died of opioid overdose. By 2010, that number had quadrupled to 16,000. In 2016, opioids killed 64,000 Americans

America is currently suffering a suicide epidemic. The crisis disproportionately affects veterans, largely due to their higher rates of PTSD. Twenty United States veterans commit suicide every day. To

I recently published a comprehensive article demonstrating that the DNC is implicated in the murder of Seth Rich. Unfortunately, in that article, it appears I passed on a piece of misinformation. There,

In the wee hours of July 10, 2016, in the Bloomingdale area of Washington, D.C., a 27-year-old DNC staffer was shot twice in the back. He died in the hospital approximately two hours later. His name was

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