Tag: Drugs

3 Virtual Reality Technologies To Compete With Oculus Rift

By now you've probably heard the news that Facebook bought virtual reality headset Oculus Rift for a cool $2 billion. It came as quite a surprise to most people since the VR headset is used by a relatively small audience of gamers. What exactly Facebook is going to do with the purchase we'll have to wait in see, but Zuckerberg and his team no...

12 Life Lessons From Facebook Fails

There are a lot of dumb people in the world. Like, a LOT. Many of them happen to be on Facebook regularly posting dumb things that want to make you bang your head against the wall. The internet is littered with Facebook fails, but rather than just cast the musings of these idiots aside, why not learn from them? Here are 12 life lessons...
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Portugal Treats Addicts as Patients, Not Criminals, and the Results Are Staggering

In 2001, in the midst of a heroin crisis, Portugal's government took the radical step of decriminalizing the possession and consumption of all illegal...

New Study Shows Big Pharma is Lying About Real Cost of Anti-Cancer Drugs

A recent study suggests that anti-cancer drugs in the US are significantly overpriced, and that even with research and development costs considered, these elevated...

Atlanta’s HIV Rate is so Bad, This Rapper Turned a Trap House Into a Free Clinic

Atlanta residents driving down Howell Mill Road got a colorful surprise this week when they saw a prewar bungalow splashed with pink and the...

MDMA is Being Developed Into a Prescription Medication

Here’s something you may know: MDMA, better known by its street name “ecstasy”, is an illicit drug first synthesized in the early 20th century and...

The Real Reasons Behind Nixon’s War on Drugs

A few weeks ago, Harper’s magazine interviewed former Richard Nixon's advisor John Ehrlichman, who admitted that President Richard Nixon’s war on drugs was in...

Pixel-Pusha: Different Drug & New Painting Every Day for 20 Days

Graphic designer Brian Pollett aka Pixel-Pusha recently set out to give a visual representation of the effects of drugs. Each day, for 20 days...