Inside the strange world of designing psychoactive drugs
Posted May 5, 2020 5:25 am.
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In today’s Big Story podcast, all of the psychoactive recreational drugs you can name are illegal in Canada. But if you’re smart enough to make a new drug yourself? Well, it’s not on the banned list yet. This is the story of a strange but fascinating ingredient called MEAI, the substance its inventor created, called Pace, and the inventor himself, who is also strange but fascinating.
It’s also a story about recreational drugs, and the push to legalize them as research becomes more expansive. (It’s also not a story about the coronavirus, because you deserve one this week.)
GUEST: Jonah Brunet, The Walrus
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