Drugs

How a racist hate-monger masterminded America’s War on Drugs

Harry Anslinger conflated drug use, race…

How Nixon used the U.S.-Mexico drug trade to demonize activists and African Americans

Photos: The ingenious feats of engineering that feed America’s appetite for drugs

When they go low, we…

Watch: Amusing 1950s marijuana propaganda film connects smoking pot to heroin addiction

Even today, pot is classified as a Schedule 1 drug alongside heroin

These personal ads from the 1960s show hippies hot to trot and leftists looking for love

Smoking bananas to get high? This wild hippie magazine convinced the mainstream you could.

Watch: A hashish-fueled road trip through Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan

The Hippie Trail led Westerners on a new silk road

These absurd photos of young travelers on the ‘Hippie Trail’ raise a lot of questions

This axe murderer helped make weed illegal

When Victor Licata hacked up his family, bureaucrats blamed…

This magical drug mansion in Upstate New York is where the psychedelic ’60s took off