What is it that interests students about the history of drugs?  As it turns out, a wide variety of topics.  And not necessarily the ones...

Over at the blog Mexican Opium, Mikelis Beitiks has began to assemble a “Wordtrack” on the history of American drug law–a kind of...

The Observer reports on how Wachovia – one of the United State’s largest banks before it was purchased by Wells Fargo in 2008 – laundered...

Earlier today, Points Contributing Editor Michelle McClellan used her experience in a near-empty room at a Women’s Studies conference to...

It might sound like the beginning of a bad joke: one historian, two social workers, and a psychologist walk into a conference room…. but...

Today witnesses the launch of TheFix.com, a new “sober lifestyles” site offering “addiction and recovery, straight up” (their words, not...

In 2009 the West African country of Guinea Bissau made a rare and brief appearance in the international media when, in the early hours of...

The New York Times reports the death of chemist Augustus Stanley Owsley III, pioneer of industrially produced LSD. #psychedelics