In the final installment of our series, A Selective History of Hard Drugs, Henry Vespa looks at the the world’s biggest pushers… big pharma companies. You might think we’ve come a long way from the 1890s. Back then, the Sears Roebuck catalog (to be found in […]
In Part Three of our new series, A Selective History of Hard Drugs, Henry Vespa looks at the influence that church and state had on drug usage… Yes, when it comes to prohibition and criminalization, we can thank those twin scourges of recreational drug use, the […]
In Part Two of our series A Selective History of Hard Drugs, Henry Vespa turns his attention to that old classic opium and its insane cousin heroin… So, apparently the US is in the middle of a heroin revival. The latest figures bandied about in the […]
In Part One of our new series, A Selective History of Hard Drugs, Henry Vespa begins taking a look at how certain substances have worked themselves into the public bloodstream… There are a lot of entertaining memes on Facebook smirking at the ridiculousness of yesteryear. Learn-to-read […]
