10 episodes
Drug Futurisms Drug Futurisms
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4.4 • 7 Ratings
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After over 100 years of drug prohibition, it is hard to imagine a different future. What would the world look like if drugs were legal? In Drug Futurisms, we explore other possible drug worlds.
Many of us live under some form of government created overdose crisis. Prohibitionists argue that changing punitive drug laws would exacerbate the harms of drugs. Activists and harm reductionists spend so much time fighting this idea that they rarely have a chance to imagine how things could be. What could the future hold, how could we make ourselves and our loved ones safer? If drugs were regulated differently what sorts of community and harm reduction practices could exist?
Drug Futurisms is a podcast co-hosted by Claire Zagorski and Alex Betsos. We come from different worlds, Claire from chemistry and pharmacy, Alex from sociology and anthropology. But we share a common goal. Imagining that another drug world is possible
Episodes out bi-weekly/once a month. Support us on patreon at: patreon.com/DrugFuturisms
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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 →
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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 →
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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/ - yeah that one Testosterone was criminalized in the United States in response to its use by … Continue reading 6 Hormonic Resonances →
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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 →
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Breakfast in Latin America Part II
See the show notes from Part I for more details Pura Vida
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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 →