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Missing Medicines: Taking on the big-pharma monopoly

People not profit — The current monopoly of the pharmaceutical industry by corporate giants is costing lives, but individuals and group initiatives are challenging the system, campaigning for widespread use of generic drugs and affordable price tags.

  • Activism
  • Marianna Manson

The architect building his own skate oasis in the ruins of the Greek crisis

Athens’ creative renaissance has begun — Latraac is a cutting-edge skate bowl and social space in a drug-infested neighbourhood of Athens - part of a new wave of creative projects transforming the city’s fortunes.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

UK government takes enormous step towards medical cannabis legalisation

Cross-party parliamentary enquiry calls for legalisation — Activists, politicians and international investors are piling on the pressure for legalisation and dismantling the barriers to reform. Is it finally time for the UK to catch up with the rest of the world?

  • Activism
  • Alex King

Secret Garden Party is the first UK festival to introduce official drug testing service

What’s in your baggy? — Secret Garden Party festival offered festivalgoers the opportunity to have their drugs tested to help avoid overdoses and poisonings.

  • Reportage
  • Alex King

Research finds majority of UK MPs now support medical marijuana use

Is legalisation in sight? — A poll conducted by innovative drugs pressure group VolteFace finds overwhelming cross-party support for the legalisation of medical marijuana in the UK House of Commons.

  • Reportage
  • Alex King

How Magic Mushrooms could hold the key to curing depression

Are hallucinations the secret to happiness? — New research shows psilocybin, the active ingredient in Magic Mushrooms, to have huge potential for treating depression.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

Huck’s top ten alternative stoner movies

Smoke screen — On 4/20, we’ve got the choicest cuts of kush cinema to help you through the haziest day of the year.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

Scientists reveal world’s first images of the human brain on LSD

First LSD research in over 50 years hints at the nature of self — Psychedelics campaigner Amanda Fielding publishes research exploring the nature of consciousness and LSD’s potential to treat depression, addiction and OCD.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

RIP Howard Marks, Oxford-educated author, activist and notorious drug smuggler

Exclusive archive interview — From the decedent corridors of Oxford University to the bunkers of the British Secret Service, the life of Howard Marks, "the most sophisticated drugs baron of all time", was nothing short of remarkable. On the day he dies here's our exclusive interview - talking prison, drugs, and his extraordinary life.

  • Reportage
  • Shelley Jones

The Naked Truth: Protestors strip bare to demand fair access to drugs

Putting people before profit — Protestors stripped naked at drug company Gilead's London HQ this afternoon to expose the profit before patient attitude that is costing millions of lives.

  • Activism
  • Michael Segalov

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