How Drugs Built the Internet: Psychedelics, Hackers and Counterculture
LSD, weed and speed ran through MIT, Stanford and the Homebrew Computer Club before the internet did. Two hackers explain what the drugs actually did to the code. This article originally appeared in High Times’ Spring/Summer 2026 print edition. Get yours here. Once upon a time, being a nerd wasn’t deemed cool. It was the 1970s when […]
Venezuela, Drugs and Oil: How Washington’s Policy Has Changed
Washington has removed Venezuela from the group of countries deemed to have “failed demonstrably” in their anti-drug obligations while maintaining it on the broader list of major drug-transit and producing countries, citing growing cooperation with Delcy Rodríguez’s interim government. At the same time, U.S. oil companies and policymakers are rapidly deepening their involvement in Venezuela’s […]