Marc Lewis is a neuroscientist and a recently retired professor of developmental psychology – he was at the University of Toronto from 1989 to 2010, and at Radboud University in the Netherlands from 2010 to 2016. His latest book is The Biology of Desire (2015). He lives in the Netherlands.
Shaun Shelly is affiliated with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pretoria where he is a researcher and lecturer. Shaun started South Africa’s first harm-reduction centre, and currently heads the drug policy and rights programme at a national NGO. He is also on a number of local and international advisory boards. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
February 8, 2017
You might imagine progressive drug laws go hand-in-hand with social democracy. It's not the case in Sweden.
February 10, 2017
A legal, regulated cannabis market would help prevent problematic use and give treatment options the radical revamp they need.
February 14, 2017
I was able to heal my relationship with death, and that in turn allowed me to heal my relationship with life.
February 14, 2017
I was on duty the night Alex decided to commit suicide in the communal showers.
February 16, 2017
The most common consequences of drug policies, whether focusing on the supply or the demand side, bring disproportionate harm to women and girls.
February 27, 2017
Reducing drug policy down to defining “good” substances and “bad” substances is missing the entire point.
March 1, 2017
Many of us are well-meaning in our engagement with plant medicines, but we cannot disregard the real-world impact that our actions inevitably have, regardless of intent.
March 2, 2017
Even if we don't necessarily share religious, spiritual, or mythological assumptions, are we able to reconcile between such seemingly different and antagonistic worldviews?
March 9, 2017
In underground sessions, you’re taking a huge risk choosing to work with someone who may not have adequately prepared or may have dubious subconscious motivations.
March 14, 2017
I’ve yet to lift my self-imposed ban on mirror-gazing, but if one were in front of me now, my face would reflect the same slack-jawed childlike wonder I felt in fifth grade as the sun-filled sky turned black while my gym class watched our first lunar eclipse from the playground.