Bruce Shlain News Today

Call it the sociological surprise of marijuana culture. The universal code for getting high has been transformed into a mighty symbol for stoner identity and a vehicle for sharing an authentic collective consciousness.

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

Like so many American boys at the turn of the 20th century, Alfred Hubbard started out barefoot and never made it to the fourth grade. He grew up in th...

In an effort to get a handle on just exactly what Dr. Sidney Gottlieb did for a living, several of his obituaries referred to him as "the real-life "Q," as if the perpetually-annoyed-by-007 spy-gear supplier from the James Bond movies came close to describing the man who was also known as "Joseph Scheider." The fact is: well probably never know the whole truth about Gottlieb, the director of the CIAs Project MK-ULTRA from 1953 to 1972. EVERYTHING pertaining to his work on "mind control," "tru...