This is part 1 of a 3-part series that follows the story of scientist, chemist, and fugitive, Robert Widdowson. During the 1980's Widdowson manufactured the MDMA analogue MDHA in Santa Fe, New Mexico until he was arrested and charged under the Federal Analogues Act. This is his story.

This is part 2 of a 3-part series that follows the story of scientist, chemist, and fugitive, Robert Widdowson. During the 1980's Widdowson manufactured the MDMA analogue MDHA in Santa Fe, New Mexico until he was arrested and charged under the Federal Analogues Act.

This is part 3 of a 3-part series that follows the story of scientist, chemist, and fugitive, Robert Widdowson. During the 1980's Widdowson manufactured the MDMA analogue MDHA in Santa Fe, New Mexico until he was arrested and charged under the Federal Analogues Act.

If neither the state nor defenders of our continued drug policies can provide a rational justification for the continued practice of incarcerating drug users, then the use of punishment by the state against drug users is morally unjustified.

We must remember how in less than two decades, an open internet enabled us to bridge some deep cultural divides, dismantle three-quarters of a century worth of drug propaganda, crowdsource massive databases of drug information, and crowdfund millions of dollars for FDA-approved research on psychedelics.

The Czech Psychedelic Society is creating the Czech version of Zendo Project and KosmiCare.

There’s an emerging public, political, and scientific consensus that otherwise-law-abiding people should not be arrested simply for using or possessing a drug.

Psychedelic therapy has the potential to ignite a paradigm shift within our culture by enabling us to reframe complex social problems as manifestations of trauma.

After getting off my long dependence on anti-depressants, I found myself feeling open to natural therapies.

First, the entire premise—that Schedule I status is the primary obstacle to research—is flat-out wrong.