Stories
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
- Article
Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
- Article
A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry
Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.
- Interview
Sniffing glue and Scientology in the DrugScope archive
Academics on hallucinogenics, kids sniffing glue, and Scientologists recruiting drug users keen to kick the habit. Delve into Wellcome’s recently acquired DrugScope archive.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Cannabis campaign papers
Date: 1949-2000Reference: PP/SAB/B/1/1/1Part of: Stephen Abrams (1938-2012): archive- Archives and manuscripts
Cannabis and mental illness
Date: 1990sReference: SA/ACT/E/4Part of: Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT)- Journals
Cannabis Canada : CC : the magazine of Canada's cannabis culture.
Date: [1995]-1998- Archives and manuscripts
Cannabis and LSD
Date: 2002-2006Reference: PP/SAB/B/2/6/12Part of: Stephen Abrams (1938-2012): archive- Archives and manuscripts
Cannabis A-Z poster and Police poster
Date: 1960s-1997Reference: PP/SAB/B/1/1/21Part of: Stephen Abrams (1938-2012): archive