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The high road

The high road is a first-person Guardian US series exploring America's changing relationship to habitual drug use, decades after Just Say No

12 June 2024

  • shroomsexmain01new

    I was struggling with sex in my first queer relationship. Then we started taking mushrooms

    Sex on mushrooms has heightened my sensitivity and helped me be more present and relaxed

5 June 2024

  • shrooms01two

    I have lifelong anorexia. MDMA and mushrooms showed me remission is possible

    The formidable disease affects every corner of my life. Working with these medicines hasn’t been a cure-all – but it’s yielded deep lessons

29 May 2024

  • hand holding a joint over a background showing a brightly colored bed and cannabis leaves

    Smoking weed every day makes me less presentable and less productive. I love it

  • image shows grid of cocktails, pills and mushrooms, with hands holding mushrooms, pills, a lighter and a rolled up dollar bill

    Americans have demonized drugs for decades. Now we’re doing them every day

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