Drug Futurisms

Drug Futurisms

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SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Imagining another drug world together

12/08/2022

Bonus Episode 1 - Unionizing Harm Reduction w/ Jacob Clary

In our first bonus episode, Alex is joined by Jacob Clary to discuss the labour movement, harm reduction and unionization. Jacob is a union member at a harm reduction org in NY state, and discusses the need to “understand harm reduction as a workforce to be organized”. We are releasing the bonus episode today in … Continue reading Bonus Episode 1 – Unionizing Harm Reduction w/ Jacob Clary →

1h 20m
05/25/2022

From Just Coca to Crack Vapes

“”Pharmability”, the feasibility to refine materials to drugs by chemical synthesis, purification etc.” – Fabian Steinmetz & Maja Kohek What would it take to grow enough opium poppies for heroin, or coca? Further, how could this be done in an equitable way, recognizing that colonialism is at the heart of the drug war? Fabian is … Continue reading 7 From Just Coca to Crack Vapes →

1h 35m
04/07/2022

Hormonic Resonances

“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.” – Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Dispossessed” *we highly recommend you read Adryan’s article before listening* https://filtermag.org/testosterone-criminalization/ Continue reading 6 Hormonic Resonances →

1h 21m
03/09/2022

Sexy Space Drugs in Post-Prohibitionist Afro Futurisms

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time” – Angela Davis In this episode we get high on alien drugs in a totally sexy way with Mallory Culbert. Mallory is a tech wiz, artist, drug policy activist and the author … Continue reading 5 Sexy Space Drugs in Post-Prohibitionist Afro Futurisms →

1h 17m
11/27/2021

Breakfast in Latin America Part II

See the show notes from Part I for more details Pura Vida

48 min
11/26/2021

Breakfast in Latin America Part I

“Who believes today that the war on drug trafficking is achieving victories? Quite the opposite. It’s been a resounding failure” – Juan Ramón Quintana, MAS Minister of the Presidency under Evo Morales *We will now be putting content notes at the bottom of every episode. Check there for trigger warnings* The War on Drugs takes … Continue reading 4 Breakfast in Latin America Part I →

1h 15m
11/15/2021

3.5 Looking Back to the Future

“The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?” – Doc Brown, Back to the Future Clarie & Alex take a moment to talk about the previous episodes, what’s been going on. As well as some weird. We unpack some of our … Continue reading 3.5 Looking Back to the Future →

56 min
10/21/2021

Uprooting Prohibited Futures w/ Garth Mullins

“What is the future we dream of? It is tearing up the drug war by the root. And to me, the roots are in capitalism” – Garth Mullins One person’s now is another person’s future. In times of crisis making the future becomes necessary. In 2013, it would have seemed incredibly unlikely that Canada would … Continue reading 3 Uprooting Prohibited Futures w/ Garth Mullins →

1h 25m
09/23/2021

Experimenting to the Future

“Harm reduction is a dynamic response to a fundamentally hostile world … a strategy of resistance that at its best can build justice and is love.” – Karen Ward* “Meet people where they’re at”, is easy to say but hard to do. It is the root of harm reduction, where our ability to imagine … Continue reading 2 Experimenting to the Future w/ Sheila Vakharia →

1h 14m
09/08/2021

The Dose Makes the Future w/ Ryan Marino

“The dose makes the poison” – Paracelsus (Father of Toxicology) To get to a different future we not only have to imagine what could be, but help others see what is. Few have spent more time busting the myths of the present and the past as Ryan Marino (@RyanMarino), an Emergency medical toxicologist who … Continue reading 1 The Dose Makes the Future w/ Ryan Marino →

1h 13m

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Imagining another drug world together

Creator

Drug Futurisms
Years Active

2021 - 2022
Episodes

10
Rating

Explicit
Show Website

Drug Futurisms