In the effort to demonize mind-altering drugs, critics have overlooked some very real benefits

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The right, including Rush Limbaugh, falls for a hoax about the president's college thesis

In the wake of the war on drugs, researchers study effects of LSD, MDMA on anxiety and post traumatic stress

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The story of Jesus' conception and birth is deeply beholden to Hellenistic tradition. A religious scholar explains

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The Good Book contains passages about rape, murder and slavery that Evangelicals conveniently refuse to acknowledge