Archive - High and Mighty

1985: A Watershed Year for Drug Histories

At the height of the Reagan administration, these books helped shape popular drug discourse

Feb 19, 2024 •

December 2023

Nixon-Era Drug Literature: Surprisingly Dope

McCoy, Pekkanen, and Szasz saw through the bullshit and warned future generations

Dec 25, 2023 •

Veblen on the Drug Habits of the Elite

Economist Thorstein Veblen's 1899 text remains as relevant as ever, well over a century later

Dec 20, 2023 •

"...with powder and with pills"

Marx + Kierkegaard on the social meanings of drug use

Dec 18, 2023 •

(It's been weird, to say the least...)

Dec 13, 2023 •

Drugs, Class, + Power

Why did I write this book?

Dec 12, 2023 •

October 2023

The Politics of Getting High

When the world is falling down...

Oct 19, 2023 •

Dr. Beane's Fantastical Ergot Trip [1884]

The OG Bicycle Day?

Oct 13, 2023 •

A prophetic acid novel from the 1930s

Deciphering Saint Peter's Snow and the protopolitics of LSD

Oct 12, 2023 •

"We sure do grow lotsa good things besides watermelons here in Arkansas"

Bill Clinton according to Terry Reed

Oct 4, 2023 •

September 2023

The Moralization of Opioids

These 19th-century documents show how opioids became equated with moral failure

Sep 12, 2023 •

August 2023

From Dachau to Baltimore (Part 2)

The roots of the modern psychedelic drug industry

Aug 25, 2023 •

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