Medicine are a perennial American preoccupation, from the battle on illicit ones to our large pharmaceutical business. This month, Vox reporters seemed into the urgent drug questions of the second: What occurs when weed replaces alcohol? Given excessive prices and varied medicine shortages, how a lot do expiration dates matter? What is pink cocaine? We even have an interview with a biohacking anarchist about DIY medication, for The Spotlight podcast.
There’s loads of non-drug stuff so that you can get pleasure from too: items on methods to reconcile after a household estrangement and methods to rewild your personal yard, suggestions from Vox’s e-book critic, and an exploration of why nostalgia gained’t get us out of the loneliness epidemic.
Land of the free, residence of the blazed.
It’s not cocaine, however it may be absolutely anything else — besides a good suggestion.
That Tylenol’s shelf life is longer than you assume.
DMT, “the nuclear bomb of the psychedelic household,” defined.
Expensive, authorized weed is nice information — for the black market.
Drugs shouldn’t be so arduous to entry — so the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective helps folks make their very own.
There are sensible, on a regular basis methods to get out of your head and into group.
One wildflower at a time.
Break up-ticket voting, the Senate, down-ballot points, and extra.
By Eric Levitz and Christian Paz
Reconnecting with somebody you’ve reduce ties with isn’t straightforward — however it may be performed.
In November’s month’s version of Ask a E book Critic, novels to scratch the surrealist itch, lesbian necromancers in house, and extra.