Aidan Simardone is a recent Osgoode law school graduate, completing his articles by helping LGBT refugees. He researches and writes critically on criminal, international and anti-terrorism law. Find his work at aidansimardone.com or follow him on Twitter at @AidanSimardone
January 9, 2017
The cannabis-activist group, DCMJ, sat in on the Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing.
January 11, 2017
There’s only one way to find out – more scientific experiments.
January 18, 2017
I had been defined by the diagnoses and labels put on me, but in that moment, I was peeling back every layer of self-hatred, criticism, and trauma.
January 20, 2017
1960's. Two men. One goal. Turn the world on to LSD. An Interview with The SunShine Makers director, Cosmo Feilding Mellen.
January 23, 2017
The nation and the world were rocked this weekend by the Women’s March. The day before, cannabis activist group DCMJ distributed thousands of hand-rolled joints—for free.
January 24, 2017
UC Berkeley SSDP members are organizing college classes focused on drug education.
January 26, 2017
While much progress has been made, a narrow focus of MDMA just for PTSD obscures the larger applications of MDMA, particularly for those whom traditional psychotherapy has been largely ineffective.
January 26, 2017
We had never seen anything like them. We had no models, societal, medical, or religious, to deal with them. Many were threatened by them.
January 31, 2017
What is neurogenesis? Do psychedelics really cause it? If they do, what doors might that open up?
February 6, 2017
Neill Franklin is the Executive Director of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP). Before joining LEAP, Neill spent 34 years at the Maryland State Police and the Baltimore Police Department.