Drugs – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:30:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Drugs – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Witches’ Herb: Henbane, Healing, and Hallucination in the Medieval Imagination https://brewminate.com/witches-herb-henbane-healing-and-hallucination-in-the-medieval-imagination/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:30:32 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=266545 Henbane’s history in medieval Europe reveals the complexity of a plant that existed at the intersection of medicine,

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]]> Hidden Hemp Ban: How the Last-Minute Funding Bill Will Wreck a National Industry https://brewminate.com/hidden-hemp-ban-how-the-last-minute-funding-bill-will-wreck-a-national-industry/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:13:35 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265945 The shutdown bill’s hidden hemp provision has triggered a reckoning not just for farmers and manufacturers, but for

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]]> America’s New Drug War under Trump Will Fail as Much as the Last One https://brewminate.com/americas-new-drug-war-under-trump-will-fail-as-much-as-the-last-one/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:12:37 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265955 The United States has spent decades confronting drug trafficking with force, yet the record across Latin America shows

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]]> Locusta and the Architecture of Poison: Power and Pardon in the Ancient Roman Court https://brewminate.com/locusta-and-the-architecture-of-poison-power-and-pardon-in-the-ancient-roman-court/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:26:25 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265881 Locusta’s legacy lies not in the sensational details of her craft but in what her life reveals about

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]]> Albert Hofmann and the Origins of LSD in 1938 https://brewminate.com/albert-hofmann-and-the-origins-of-lsd-in-1938/ Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:06:46 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=245919 He accidentally underwent the first acid trip in human history. By Eli WizevichHistory CorrespondentSmithsonian Magazine When chemist Albert Hofmann moved

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]]> Never-Again Land: J. M. Barrie’s ‘My Lady Nicotine’ (1896) https://brewminate.com/never-again-land-j-m-barries-my-lady-nicotine-1896/ Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:03:38 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=226300 Perhaps it’s best that this man quit smoking. This article, Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie’s My Lady Nicotine

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]]> Exploring Holistic Approaches to Addiction Recovery and Wellness https://brewminate.com/exploring-holistic-approaches-to-addiction-recovery-and-wellness/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:02:54 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=262016 Curious about the key to sustainable addiction recovery? Well, many people think that recovery is simply a matter

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]]> Visions Beyond the Veil: A History of Seeking the Divine through Hallucination https://brewminate.com/visions-beyond-the-veil-a-history-of-seeking-the-divine-through-hallucination/ Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:44:38 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=260682 The modern tendency to separate the sacred from the pharmacological is a historical anomaly. In much of human

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]]> Sacred Fungi and the Boundaries of Belief: America’s Emerging Psychedelic Faith Fight https://brewminate.com/sacred-fungi-and-the-boundaries-of-belief-americas-emerging-psychedelic-faith-fight/ Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:44:01 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=260578 Public attitudes toward psychedelics have shifted dramatically in recent years. Several U.S. cities and states have moved toward

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