Most of the CIA’s LSD Came from Eli Lilly

A 1953 memorandum identifies the pharmaceutical supplier inside an intelligence program built to obscure its own workings.

The Celebrity Psychedelic Memoir Is a Genre Now

How celebrity confession turns a legally constrained psychedelic experience into marketable redemption.

What Brain Scans Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Orgasm

What laboratory neuroscience can actually say about orgasm—and what commerce asks it to say.

A Meal on Mushrooms

What happens when a controlled substance, a tasting menu, and three regulatory systems meet at one table.

What MDMA Does to a Marriage

What small couples studies, FDA rejection, and underground history do—and do not—show.

Law Happens Somewhere

The rooms, rules, screens, waits, and relationships through which law becomes real

Who Made This So Hard?

Before blaming the user, map the legal encounter

Suggested but Not Proven

Twenty-four clay pipe fragments from Shakespeare's garden, and what the residue analysis did and did not establish.

Ganga (Cannabis Sativa)

Jamaica legislated against ganja on an official's word. The colony's own customs returns record no such import, in any year.

Why Legal and Public Systems Must Be Designed for Nervous Systems

A right does not become usable merely because an institution issued a notice.

How Regulatory Categories Conceal Scientific Uncertainty

A legal category can make a plant, product, or practice look more scientifically settled than the evidence permits. Cannabis shows why every consequential classification needs a visible Category File.

Added to Chapter — Appendices

The chronology separates the layers the legend collapses; the claim ledger records each proposition with the verdict the evidence supports.

The Theatrical Takings Were Thin

Gautier's essay founded the French literature of hashish. There is no club in it, and no Hôtel Pimodan.

The Windbreak Decree

Amsterdam, 1971: a defendant conducting his own case asked the prosecution's chemist a question about wind.

Beyond Personal Software: Your AI Is Becoming a Private Institution

When software remembers, interprets, prioritizes, represents, and acts across domains of life, it begins performing institutional functions.

Luxury Agents: The Next Status Symbol Is Protected Attention

Luxury has always sold relief from friction. AI agents may turn delegated attention into a continuously personalized premium service.

Who Gets a Protected Nervous System?

Quiet, discretion, time, assistance, reversibility, and freedom from interruption are forms of infrastructure. They are not distributed equally.

The Creator Is the Infrastructure

A creator can become an institution. Their body does not become infinitely available.

Neither Christians Nor Saracens Know — Appendix

Why High-Performing Men Are Paying to Surrender

What the ayahuasca retreat economy reveals about the interior lives of high-performing men—and why the prior question matters more than the cure.

Inside the Ketamine Clinics Opening in Every Financial District

What the executive ketamine boom reveals about convenience, off-label care, and regulatory accountability.

The Men Who Can Only Be Vulnerable While Altered

Who is responsible for what happens after the breakthrough?

The Antidepressant Warning That Ends Too Soon

The regulatory and informed-consent gap around persistent sexual dysfunction after SSRIs.

Nobody Took the Children to Find God — Appendices

The chronology separates the layers the legend collapses; the claim ledger records each proposition with the verdict the evidence supports.