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April 4/11, 2022, Issue

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Editorial

“The Nation” on Drugs

Our special issue considers the casualties of the War on Drugs, as well as the unprecedented opportunities to make amends.

D.D. Guttenplan

Stop the Fighting in Ukraine

Now is the time to begin the search for a lasting peace.

Michael T. Klare for The Nation

Column

People of different backgrounds fit together as part of a half-completed puzzle

A Mirror on Every Wall—and a Microphone Behind Every Mirror

The work of belonging is never done.

David Bromwich

The Dawn of an Even More Dangerous Cold War

Many have forgotten the lessons of the Cuban missile crisis and the perils of nuclear war. Let’s hope Joe Biden isn’t among them.

Jeet Heer

Sanctioning Oligarchs

Calvin Trillin

Feature

From Opium to Saffron, the Ancients Knew a Thing or Two About Drugs

Scholars of antiquity are finding ever more evidence that psychoactive substances played a central role in ancient life.

Karen Polinger Foster and Diana Stein and Sarah Kielt Costello

The War on Weed Decimated My Community—Will There Be Restitution?

Legalization offers a chance to restore a fragment of what was lost by Black and Afro-Latinx communities pummeled by prohibition, but so far, white business are claiming the spoils...

Tavian Crosland

How the Netherlands Became a Global Cocaine Hub

The surge in trafficking through the Port of Rotterdam has coincided with spectacular violence.

Jessica Loudis

Breaking Off My Chemical Romance

We deserve a fuller picture of both the benefits and dangers of antidepressants.

P.E. Moskowitz

Making Mushrooms Legal

After 50 years of prohibition, some states are starting to challenge the federal government’s policy on psychedelic drugs.

Aída Chávez

The Secret Black History of LSD

Research on psychedelics, then and now, has been riddled with medical racism and exclusion. But that hasn’t stopped Black people from finding creativity and solace through such dru...

Kali Holloway

The Brave New World of Legalized Psychedelics Is Already Here

And so are the profiteers. Get ready for Psychedelics Inc.

Zoe Cormier

How the Drug War Dies

Just a few decades ago, the left and the right, politicians and the public, universally embraced the criminalization of drug use. But a new consensus has emerged.

Maia Szalavitz