The Nib magazine Drugs issue

Cartoonists from around the world share quick hits of illustrated stories about the politics and personal impacts of drugs, including lithium, testosterone, antidepressants, opiates, and marijuana.

Featuring a cover by Michael DeForge and 112 pages of mind-altering substances from more than 30 cartoonists. Say yes to the Drugs issue!

In this issue:

• Cartoonists on getting high, getting healthy, getting pregnant, managing depression, and gender transition.

• The effects of the pot-to-prison pipeline, war on drugs, homegrown laws, and cat nip.

• The strange ingredients of prescription drugs revealed!

• Hear about hydroxychloroquine from a person who actually needs it.

• Better living through microdosing!

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The full lineup for the magazine is:

• I’m on the Drugs, fertility treatments and the quest for baby #2 by Eleri Harris

• Out of the Box, Ashley Caswell’s first doctor’s appointment as an openly trans person.

• The Pot-to-Prison Pipeline by Zack Ruskin and Sophie Yanow examining our disparate system of legalization and incarceration.

• Syndemic 2021 on the opioid crisis in Pennsylvania by Nero Villagallos O’Reilly

• My Cousin Dave by Rebecca Roher, a memoir of a relative lost to addiction.

With Dispatches, Strips, and other contributions from:

• For The Response, the drugs that saved the lives of Vincy Lim, Rachel Dukes, Kane Lynch, and Issy Manley.

• Drugs stats by Wang Xulin, Archive editorial cartoons from the Prohibition Era, and The Nib interview with neuropharmacologist Dr. Carl Hart by Sarah Mirk and illustrated by Daniel Irizarri.

• Readers tell us their favorite drugs, illustrated by Erlend Sandøy.

• Dispatches from Eleri Harris and Andrew Greenstone, Whit Taylor, Matt Lubchansky, Rowan Oats, Yazan Al-Saadi and Omar Al Fil, Rachel Quast, and Brian Box Brown.

• Strips by Gemma Correll, Joey Alison Sayers, Eric Haven, Ben Passmore, Keith Knight, Kendra Wells, Mariah-Rose Marie, Shannon Wheeler, and KC Green.

• With illustrations by Isuri, Andy Warner, James Stanton, and Mark Kaufman.