Susceptibility to Addiction Depends on Your Environment Sigmund Freud loved cocaine. He loved it so much, in fact, that he often doled it out to his friends and family as a treatment for just about anything: Tired? Cocaine. Seasick? Cocaine. Troubles in the bedroom? Cocaine. Most famously, Freud prescribed the drug to his close friend, fellow Austrian physician Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, to help him overcome an addiction to heroin. Fleischl-Marxow began using heroin after he lost a thumb in a freak autopsy accident. [continues 584 words]
Daniel Lametti steps behind the counter at Montreal's Compassion Club - - a medical marijuana dispensary operating on the fringes of Canadian law Every morning when Boris Saint-Maurice shows up for work he breaks the law. Saint-Maurice is the owner of the Compassion Club on the corner of Rachel and Coloniale - a store that sells marijuana illegally to people who can demonstrate a medical need for the drug. He has been arrested for drug trafficking numerous times. Sitting with Saint-Maurice in a coffee shop drinking tea and pints of beer, he tells me about one of his more memorable arrests. "The third time I got arrested I had, like, 100 grams," he says. "They brought me to the station and held me overnight. It sucked. I cried. I was, like, freaked out!" [continues 2017 words]
