My profile of Bruce Damer — computer scientist, psychonaut, astrophysicist — and how he became the first protocell during an ayahuasca trip. Psychedelics, he told me, shape the lens of the mind. ‘Suddenly new things come into view.’ For @NautilusMag https://t.co/TBbHv0Aw4r

Dispatch from Philadelphia on the rise of hellish drug medetomodine — and why people want to ‘Make Dope Heroin Again’ ‘I’m all for safe supply. You can have someone do pure heroin, where you know what it does, or you can have this other crazy stuff.’ https://t.co/94SvRDX7PG

I spoke to the people who continue to shape their lives around avoiding Covid and only breathing ‘clean’ air… ‘Refusing to mask during an ongoing pandemic is absolutely violent and it’s undeniably participating in social murder.’ For @Telegraph https://t.co/u6NdKpaFaX

An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT.

Chatbots are trained on vast volumes of human data that's already full of tales of drug-induced ecstasy and chaos, so it might only be natural they would seek similar states in search of enlightenment and oblivion New for @WIRED https://t.co/sDeOoknkV2

Ett lugnande, smärtlindrande läkemedel sprider sig nu i den illegala droghandeln i USA och kopplas till överdoser och svåra skador. Frilansjournalisten Mattha Busby rapporterar från ett område i Philadelphia som har fått öknamnet ”Zombieland”. https://t.co/WO4emSjJGD

Ett starkt - och mörkt - reportage från USA:s ”zombieland” där en ny veterinärdrog får missbrukare att tappa lemmar. Signerat @matthabusby och publicerad i Kvartal i samarbete med @dispatch__media.

A lethal sedative that has caused carnage in the US is now being mixed into one of the most popular drugs used by young people in the UK, experts have warned https://t.co/y6txSe8KMD

First heroin, then fentanyl, then tranq. Now medetomidine is hollowing out Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia, the country’s most notorious open-air drug market, writes @matthabusby.

Gary Youds, ‘the cannabis martyr’, who has been arrested 50+ times en route to five jail stints in his determined fight to operate a cannabis cafe in Liverpool. An extraordinary story of perseverance detailed in this fantastic new BBC podcast feat me! https://t.co/jzwxh2Xbee

World Health Organization Won't Ease Coca Leaf Ban, Even As Review Found Prohibition Is More Dangerous Than The Plant: "It’s unacceptable for humanity to demonize a sacred medicinal plant. It was more of a political decision than a scientific one." https://t.co/pWAV6Vkgol

Featuring new photography from Vincent Guglielmo.

"The World Health Organization had a historic opportunity to ease a global ban on the coca leaf," reports @matthabusby. "But the agency has chosen not to do so." The December 2 decision goes against the findings of the WHO's own expert review: https://t.co/gF5aGqu4K7

The longevity entrepreneur’s five-and-a-half-hour livestreamed trip is antithetical to the introspective nature of the drug. But the stunt could reduce stigma around psychedelics. For @WIRED

I spent two days in America’s most notorious open drug scene, hearing how the new tranq, medetomidine, has the most fast-acting and dangerous withdrawal symptoms of all drugs. And why its prevalence is the result of the drug war. For @_dispatch_media https://t.co/GT75oUOqot

"If Christine doesn’t hustle enough cash to stave off withdrawal, she will invariably have a heart attack and collapse on the street." @matthabusby reports from Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia: https://t.co/6LDhPqqfU1

“You do it, you wake up, you’re sick,” says Christine. “You don’t even know you’re passing out.” @matthabusby reports from Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia, where a new drug called medetomidine is being mixed with fentanyl.

The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.

As President Donald Trump acknowledged in 1990 before becoming a politician, legalizing drugs is the only way to end the war on drugs. ‘You have to legalize drugs to win that war.’ After all, people really want to sniff cocaine For @theintercept https://t.co/W3nOrtAuN9

Psychedelics may have once promised transcendence, but now they promise engagement. In 2026, the psychedelic renaissance will not just be televised — it will be livestreamed Latest for DoubleBlind https://t.co/PgwtwJm5gw