The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Trent Wolbe
Something powerful came to life here, something new and useful and limitless that had incubated inside me for 29 years, but wouldn’t come out without the help of a shitload of tiny pink pills.
by Derek de Koff
I’d heard it was the most effective stop-smoking drug yet. So I took it. Then those reports of suicidal ideation began washing in.
by Jim Hogshire
Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide, the “DM” in DM cough syrups such as Robitussin Maximum Strength Cough, is one of the most mystifying drugs in the pharmacopia. Even though it can be found in virtually every over-the-counter cold, flu, and cough remedy, most reference works hardly mention it; when they do, their information is sketchy and sometimes contradictory…
by Venkat Rao
To understand any chapter in the story of humanity, it is not enough to ask, what is the plot? and what were the archetypes of the day? We must also ask, what were they smoking?
by Mark Jacobson
On the one hand, marijuana is more mainstream than ever before, practically legal. On the other, kids are getting busted in the city in record numbers. Guess which kids.
A Tetw reading list
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson - This drug-fuelled trip ‘to the heart of the American Dream’ needs little introduction.
Me & My Monkey by Anonymous - A breathtaking memoir that lays out the highs and lows of heroin addiction with brutal realism.
The Electric Cough-Syrup Acid Test by Jim Hogshire - How high can you get on a bottle of cough syrup?
High in Hell by Kevin Fedarko - The author flies into Djibouti with the daily khat plane and goes in search of the city’s hard core munchers.
Opium Made Easy by Michael Pollan - The more you know the more guilty you are — the bizarre complexities of growing Opium in your garden.
Java Man by Malcolm Gladwell - Everyone’s favorite drug, caffeine gets the Gladwell treatment.
Confessions of an Opium-Seeker by Nick Tosches - A joruney to the heart of Asia in search of the mythical opium den.
Pop. Snort. Parachute. by David Amsden - How kids these days are increasingly turing to the prescription pharmocopia to satisfy their recreational needs.
My Kushy New Job by Wells Tower - The author goes to work in an Amsterdam coffee shop.
by Brendan I. Koerner
Pharmaceutical companies have come up with a new strategy to market their drugs: First go out and find a new mental illness, then push the pills to cure it.
