Aaron Rodgers: Enigma, a new Netflix docuseries about the great and apparently greatly misunderstood NFL quarterback, begins with a tattoo. After the Green Bay Packers trade him in early 2023 to the New York Jets, Rodgers decides to change his jersey number from 12 to 8, which in turn inspires …
Read More »A Psychedelic Debacle: 4-AcO, Microdosing, Media Panics and the Risks of Prohibition
Have you heard about the Diamond Shruumz recall? As of this writing, 113 people in 28 states have allegedly been sickened after eating Diamond Shruumz chocolate and gummy products, with 42 hospitalizations. The manufacturer has issued a recall, as have FDA and numerous state health departments. No one has established …
Read More »The Psychedelic Underground's Future Is in Consumer Packaged Goods
I recently traveled with a posse of fantastic colleagues to this year’s South by Southwest Conference in Austin to present a panel titled “Psychedelic Entrepreneurship and the Underground Economy.” My session with master satirist Dennis Walker, journalist Mary Carreon, and mushroom testing pioneer Reggie Harris was a blast, and we …
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