What Is Meow Meow, the Drug That Made a Teen Cut Off His Penis?
INVESTIGATING THE MEOW MEOW MENACE For Rolling Stone, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd reports: Of all the nicknames for a street drug, the newish “meow meow” might be the most innocuous ever, but its...
View ArticleYes, Stupid Laws Can Kill People
David Harsanyi writes: After news of the baffling decision by the New York grand jury not to indict a police officer in the killing of Eric Garner, I sent out a (slightly) hyperbolic tweet that...
View ArticleResearch into Psychedelics, Shut Down for Decades, is Now Yielding Exciting...
The Trip Treatment Michael Pollan writes: On an April Monday in 2010, Patrick Mettes, a fifty-four-year-old television news director being treated for a cancer of the bile ducts, read an article on the...
View ArticleBy the Numbers: How Dangerous Is It to Be a Cop?
Despite what supporters of police militarization claim, being a cop doesn’t require increasingly deadly kit. It’s not even particularly dangerous. Daniel Bier writes: Defenders of police...
View Article[VIDEO] Alcohol Prohibition Was a Dress Rehearsal for the War on Drugs
“The war on alcohol and the war on drugs were symbiotic campaigns,” says Harvard historian Lisa McGirr, author of The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. “Those two...
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