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The Drunkenness of a Nation...and Its Addictions

Last week, the WHO (World Health Organization) showed data showing that Bulgaria tops the charts for early onset of psychoactive substance use such as cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, and even early initiation of sexual activity. Rarely does our country have the “honor” of being at the top of something, and this usually happens…

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Prohibition Economics: Expensive, Inefficient, and Harmful

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Prohibition in the United States (1920-1933) is present in our minds mainly through the popular culture romanticized gangsters, secret bars and richly dressed ladies and gentlemen drinking forbidden cocktails. In fact, however, our modern societies have preserved something else that defines this historical period – and that is Prohibition itself. Although in …

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When the "honor of the epaulette" replaced the "health of the nation"

Yesterday we angered the Minister of the Interior Valentin Radev. He was offended that we took data that is freely available from the website of the Ministry of the Interior and told it to the public. The reason was the "Analysis of Bulgarian Drug Policy 2009-2016" that we published. The information "undermines the authority of the Ministry of the Interior", he said and sullenly scolded us for not ...

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Harm reduction: Psychedelics 101

Every culture known to us from history (with the sole exception of the Eskimos) has had its own potions, mushrooms, herbs for visions, meetings with the gods, spiritual growth. The Aztecs and Indians have their Peyote cactus (from which Mescaline is extracted), the Mayans have Ayahuasca, the Thracians in our lands had a selection of …

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Legalization of drugs

Prohibiting the possession and use of drugs does not eliminate the market for them. When the state makes a good or service illegal, the demand for it does not disappear, but the supply is criminalized.

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