Blog - Marc Gunther

I tried to retire as I approached a landmark birthday.

Fare evasion costs public transit systems hundreds of millions of dollars.

I’ve written about foundations and nonprofits for more than a decade, Yet I continue to be surprised and distressed by the indifference, incompetence and arrogance — and especially the lack of accountability — of some foundation boards.

We know how to end smoking.

Photo by Ganesh Harikant https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-person-smoking-electronic-cigarette-14867686/ Yikes!

S.A.R.A.H. is the World Health Organization chatbot.

They’re safer than combustible cigarettes but you won’t learn than from the WHO.

When big automakers turn away from polluting, gasoline-burning cars to make cleaner electric vehicles, they’re cheered.

For Thanksgiving, here are 23 things for which I’m grateful in 2023.

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The clinical trial that set the stage for today’s fast-growing ketamine industry runs just three pages long and involved only eight patients.

“Man vaping electronic cigarette” by Jim Hedd is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Historic is a word much overused in journalism, so we’ll leave it to others to say whether Psychedelic Science 2023 will be long remembered.

It’s an exciting time for psychedelics.

“Black Lives Matter protest march” by Fibonacci Blue is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Psychedelic medicines are generating excitement everywhere — among academic researchers and therapists, in the press, even with members of Congress — everywhere, that is, but among investors.

Philip Morris International sells IQOS products that heat but do not burn tobacco.

Rick Doblin Several years ago, an investor offered to pay $150 million for 20 percent of MAPS public benefit corporation, the for-profit drug-development subsidiary of MAPS, according to Rick Doblin, the nonprofit’s founder and president.

Most of you, I’m sure, have friends or relatives whose lives have been upended by cancer.

"magic mushrooms" by love.jsc is licensed under CC BY 2.0.