The brightest minds in Silicon Valley are relying on psychedelics (like ayahuasca) to reevaluate their lives, alleviate stress, and discover spirituality. The growing use of mind-altering drugs has led these entrepreneurs to seek out therapy in order to deal with…
This week, in continuing to muse over Douglas Murray’s newest book, On Democracies and Death Cults, I turn to something avoided by most of the media, even in Israel. The devastation wreaked on lives and societies by abuse of drugs…
The Trump administration has officially commenced its war on illicit drugs with the release of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)’s Drug Policy Priorities. These priorities lay out the administration’s one year plan of attack on…
When I recently saw Rick Perry sitting across from Joe Rogan, I was surprised. When I heard what Mr. Perry was there to discuss, I was shocked. For over two hours on the world’s biggest podcast, the former Texas governor championed ibogaine…
“My priority going forward is to build support in the United States for decriminalizing drug possession,” George Soros declared in 2019, “as Portugal and some other European countries have done.” Never mind his age, either. The 94-year-old mega-donor’s son Alexander…
The federal government is hoping you, the public, won’t notice that homelessness in America reached an all-time high last year. That was the impression given by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) when it quietly released the 2024…
As Donald Trump prepares for his new term as president, one of his stated priorities is to stop the long and deadly trend of overdose deaths and addiction. Strengthening border security against drug cartels is important, but this is not…
The prescription painkiller OxyContin was released by Purdue Pharma in 1995; the six-part TV series Painkiller, created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster and directed by Peter Berg, was released by Netflix in 2023. During the intervening 28 years, Purdue’s…
In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, Vice-Presidential nominee J. D. Vance referred to his grandmother as his “guardian angel by my side.” Acknowledging the important role that his grandmother played in rescuing him from a chaotic household…
