Hamilton Morris

Hamilton Morris (born April 14, 1987) is an American journalist, documentarian, and scientific researcher. He is the creator and director of the television series Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, in which he investigated the chemistry, history, and cultural impact of various psychoactive drugs. In September 2021, Morris left Vice to work as a chemistry consultant at the biotechnology startup, Compass Pathways.

Biography
Hamilton Morris was born in New York City, the son of Julia Sheehan, an art historian, and documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. He was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a teenager, Morris appeared in television commercials, notably a 2002 advertisement for the first-generation iPod. He attended the University of Chicago and The New School, where he studied anthropology and chemistry.

Morris's interest in psychoactive substances blossomed in his late teens when he began reading pharmacology information hosted on websites such as Bluelight and Erowid. He began writing for Vice magazine as a college sophomore. He wrote a piece called 'The Magic Jews' in 2008 documenting his experience taking LSD with a group of Hasidic Jews. Vice later hired him to write a monthly print column titled "Hamilton's Pharmacopeia" that evolved into a series of articles and documentaries for VBS.tv focused on the science of psychoactive drugs.

Morris was a correspondent and producer for Vice on HBO until 2021, and is a contributor to Harper's Magazine. Morris frequently consults with media on the subject of psychoactive drugs and conducts pharmacological research at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia with an emphasis on the synthesis and history of dissociative anesthetics.

Video

 * The Sapo Diary: Phyllomedusa bicolor skin secretions in Amazonia
 * Nzambi: Wade Davis's theory of TTX-mediated zombification in Haiti
 * High on Krystle: An exploration of the clandestine laboratory once operated by William Leonard Pickard
 * SiHKAL: Shulgins I Have Known and Loved (with Alexander Shulgin & Ann Shulgin)
 * The Icelandic Skin Disease Mushroom Fiasco
 * Hamilton Morris and the Philosopher's Stone: Psilocybin-containing sclerotium laboratories in The Netherlands
 * Tanks for the Memories: An exploration of sensory deprivation tanks with Joe Rogan
 * The Ambien Effect
 * Swaziland: Gold Mine of Marijuana
 * Efavirenz as a classical psychedelic
 * Chinese synthetic cannabinoid laboratories
 * Businesses involved in the ongoing legalization of Cannabis in the United States

Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, Viceland
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 * The Story of the South African Quaalude
 * A Positive PCP Story
 * Shepherdess: The Story of Salvia Divinorum
 * Magic Mushrooms in Mexico
 * Fish n' Trips
 * The Lazy Lizard School of Hedonism
 * The Psychedelic Toad
 * Peyote: The Divine Messenger
 * Kratom: The Forbidden Leaf
 * Wizards of DMT
 * Ketamine: Realms and Realities
 * A Clandestine Chemist's Tale
 * A Fungal Fairy Tale
 * The Cactus Apprentice
 * Synthetic Toad Venom Machine
 * A Positive Methamphetamine Story
 * Xenon: The Perfect Anesthetic?
 * Synthetic Ibogaine-Natural Tramadol
 * Bufotenine: In Search of Hataj
 * Ultra LSD

Podcast

 * The Hamilton Morris Podcast (some freely available, some on Patreon)