Opium Made Easy
…do not constitute an illegal search of one’s property, one of a string of recent rulings that have strengthened the government’s hand in fighting the drug war. Overflights and other…
Search Results: {search_term_string}
The Intelligent Plant
…scientists working on plant intelligence (a term he cautiously accepts) do today. “This stuff has been enormously contentious,” he says, referring to the early days of research into plant communication,…
The Trip Treatment
…of such research.) The effects of psilocybin resemble those of LSD, but, as one researcher explained, “it carries none of the political and cultural baggage of those three letters.” LSD…
Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch
…nature, which his research suggests is ever driven by the quest to save time or money or, optimally, both. I kept asking him what his research had to say about…
How Pot Has Grown
…America was imported. “Home grown” was a term of opprobrium—”something you only smoked in an emergency,” as one grower old enough to remember put it. Today, thanks in no small…
Love and Lies
…(Deceit is evidently very much in the air.) I went in search of one of the most ingenious and diabolical of orchids: the Ophrys. (Some botanists call it the “prostitute…
Lancaster Farming Speaks With Michael Pollan
…taken, and it is usually ruinous in the long term. But in the short term, it works. There are other paths. One path is adding value yourself as a farmer….
The Modern Hunter-Gatherer
…wasn’t sure how deep I should go in search of an explanation. And yet I had been, and still was, determined to shoot a pig — I had a meal…
Cooking
…or canning tomatoes. If you don’t know how to do something, search Youtube. Chances are there’s a video how-to on that very topic. Below we’ve put together a list of…
Naturally
…my eye: an organic TV dinner (now there are three words I never expected to string together) from Cascadian Farm called Country Herb: “rice, vegetables and grilled chicken breast strips…