Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline.

The people bringing psychedelic drugs into the mental health mainstream.

Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting.

It’s legal to buy poppy seeds in America and it’s legal to plant them—unless you’re familiar with the simple process of turning them into opium, that is. Then having poppies in your garden is a felony.

A good trip on psilocybin might be just the ticket to relieve anxiety and depression, particularly in the terminally ill. But are we ready to dive back in to psychedelic research?

Raising a cow on an industrial feedlot.

On the neurobiology of flora.

Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.

“That learning to cook could lead an American woman to success of any kind would have seemed utterly implausible in 1949; that it is so thoroughly plausible 60 years later owes everything to Julia Child’s legacy.”

A trip to the Cannabis Cup serves as a backdrop for the story of how the War on Drugs revolutionized the way marijuana is cultivated in America.

A one fire, one goat, many cooks experiment.