Negative Space: recreational drugs
- The Cartoon Guide to Recreational Drugs (213.7 KB)
- The Birds and the Bees do it, Pigs and Porcupines do it. But evidence suggests that humans are champion drug users. We are born with a natural urge to alter our consciousness. Children spin until they drop for the same reason that their parents drink alcohol. Nature requires it.
- Depressants
- Alcohol is the most popular recreational drug in the world, and probably the earliest. Oh, and here’s a safety tip: no nitrous while driving.
- Drug Prohibition Recommended Reading
- Recommended books about the drug war and about recreational drugs in general.
- Hallucinogens
- Hallucinogens have a long history with religion, from peyote to mushrooms and iboga.
- Marijuana
- Once it caught on among whites in the sixties, marijuana became the most popular of all illegal recreational drugs.
- Other
- PCP was originally used as a tranquilizer; when physicians noted that it had problematic side effects in humans, it was repositioned as an animal tranquilizer.
- Pocket Guide to Recreational Drugs
- Pocket Guide to Recreational Drugs: A Practical Guide to the Safety and Health Issues of Licit
and Illicit Recreational Drug Use
- Prohibition Politics
- The politics of prohibition, from alcohol to marijuana. Includes “Why End Prohibition?” and “The Pocket Guide to Recreational Drugs”.
- Stimulants
- Caffeine occurs in many plants, but it has its strongest effect in coffee.
- Why Drugs?
- Whether it is children spinning themselves into hallucinations or religions incorporating mind-altering drugs, there appears to be some human need to induce “variations in consciousness”.
More Information
- Drug Law Studies Over the Years
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How many times does science have to say “no problem” before politicians get the picture? A great collection of summaries of major prohibition studies over the years.
