Tag: Drugs



10,000 / 1,500 / 15: Breaking the Silence on Responsible Drug Use

May 29th, 2013 | Tags: | Posted in Cartoon | 26 Comments »

Pie chart of drug use. Breaking the silence about responsible drug use.

Here’s the deal: I’m 27 years old, which means I have been alive on this planet for 10,000 days.
During that time, I used alcohol on about 1,500 days. Additionally, I used caffeine (from tea) about 1,500 times.
Also during that time, I used ‘magic’ mushrooms 7 times, cannabis 4 times, MDMA 3 times, and LSD 1 time.

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My Drug Period

May 29th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , | Posted in Cartoon | 9 Comments »

Cartoon Milton Friedman War on Drugs

By ‘drug period’, I refer to the 12 months I spent researching, writing and drawing War on Drugs and Rat Park. This blog post discusses everything I think and feel about drugs as a result of this research.

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Globalization of Addiction: the post-Rat Park research of Bruce Alexander

May 29th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , | Posted in Cartoon | 8 Comments »

Cartoon Bruce Alexander from Rat Park

The ‘main character’ of my comic Rat Park is Professor Bruce Alexander – a real life psychologist from Vancouver. This blog post describes Bruce’s post-Rat Park research, including his book The Globalization of Addiction. If you liked my comic, you will love his book.

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A bustle in the cage-row: the making of Rat Park

May 29th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , | Posted in Cartoon | 8 Comments »

Caged rat water dispenser. Low angle photo.

This is a lengthy blog post about the behind-the-scene ‘making of’ Rat Park. Includes historical photographs of the actual Rat Park experiment from the 1970s, and interesting tidbits which I couldn’t quite fit into my comic.

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