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Del Potter PhD

@drdelpotter.bsky.social

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I’m deeply immersed in the intersections of neuroscience, ethnobotany, & pharmacological research, I thrive on leveraging science to enhance human well-being and longevity. After years of scientific writing I’m writing fiction and a cinematic memoir.

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hello MAGA

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

President Pickpocket isn’t giving up on his fake bribes.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And speaking of childish things, I've decided to give Florida a far more accurate and important name—America's Flaccid Dong. Please act accordingly. Thanks in advance . . .

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Next time you’re struggling to pay for gas or groceries, remember this image.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What do you say now, Freedom Truckers?

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I guess we can all relax now. We’re in good hands. Another day, another moronic press release. www.mediaite.com/online/rfk-j...

RFK Jr. Ripped by Critics After Claiming He’s Investigating Chemtrails: ‘F*cking Moron’

Critics took to the internet on Thursday to roast Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he claimed he was "looking at chemtrails" during an anti-vaccine group's conference.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here's the other one

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Spirals doesn't fit in your boxes @tealed-copper.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"No way you wrote a 5 page essay without Al."

Buddy, we wrote them by hand, in cursive, the day before it was due, without even reading the book.

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BJ Gorder @4theluvoflyle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

US cannabis cultivation licenses are down 24% since late 2023. Retail licenses are down 330. The farms were destroyed and the stores were left standing. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Rent on a Weed: A Marxist Examination of the Cannabis Industry

Fifty years of arrests built a commons. Legalization surveyed it, fenced it, and issued the gates as title.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Three things were held in common in American cannabis. The genetics. The cultivation knowledge. And legality itself, which fifty years of arrests and ballot initiatives paid for in advance. All three were surveyed and issued as title the moment legality arrived. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Rent on a Weed: A Marxist Examination of the Cannabis Industry

Fifty years of arrests built a commons. Legalization surveyed it, fenced it, and issued the gates as title.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Before a commons can be enclosed, the people who will have no standing in it have to be identified and marked. In England that was done by commissioners with chains and field books. In America it was done by police. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Rent on a Weed: A Marxist Examination of the Cannabis Industry

Fifty years of arrests built a commons. Legalization surveyed it, fenced it, and issued the gates as title.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In 1968 a SNCC organizer named Lee Otis Johnson gave one marijuana cigarette to an undercover officer in Houston. He was sentenced to thirty years. A federal court later found that no Black militant could get a fair trial in that city. He served about four. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Rent on a Weed: A Marxist Examination of the Cannabis Industry

Fifty years of arrests built a commons. Legalization surveyed it, fenced it, and issued the gates as title.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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One Plant, One Framework: A Unified, Effect-Based Standard for Cannabis Regulation – Association of Food and Drug Officials

Presented by Cat Packer, Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), Director of Drug Markets & Legal Regulation, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Drug Enforceme

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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Cannabis at the Crossroads: DEA Marijuana Rescheduling, the Hemp Definition Deadline, and the Battle Over Whole-Plant Cannabis Patents – Association of Food and Drug Officials

Presented by Cat Packer, Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), Director of Drug Markets & Legal Regulation, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Drug Enforceme

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

An 81-year-old caregiver with Stage4 cancer,evicted from a $300/month trailer on the coast she served for fifty years.I wrote about the 400-year history inside that sentence, from the English commons to the Airbnb coast, & how we take the commons back. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Hedge: Notes on Enclosure, from the English Commons to the Mendocino Coast

There is a woman in Fort Bragg, 81 years old, with Stage 4 cancer and her life packed in boxes by the door of a trailer she has been told to leave.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

They kept the argument on "does it cause cancer" so you'd never ask who owns the seed. Glyphosate guts the soil microbiome, breeds superweeds, and binds farmers to a patented seed they're forbidden to save. The point was never yield. It was enclosure. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Chemical Enclosure

Glyphosate, the Seed, and the Fencing of the Agricultural Commons. An essay against chemical agriculture and the reasons given for it.

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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Who did this?😱

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The trap: to defend a commons with "prior art" you have to document it. The same file that beats the patent is the file that trains the AI trip-sitter. The knowledge safest from extraction is the kind no one wrote down, which also can't defend itself. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Two Faces of the Commons

Reciprocity sells the commons back as a royalty. Refusal denies it was ever enclosable. Only one of them is a politics.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Two answers to biopiracy in the psychedelics rush.Reciprocity:pay indigenous communities a royalty (Nagoya Protocol,the first legal iboga export from Gabon in 2023).Refusal:deny the knowledge was ever ownable.One improves the terms of enclosure.The other contests it open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Two Faces of the Commons

Reciprocity sells the commons back as a royalty. Refusal denies it was ever enclosable. Only one of them is a politics.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

They gave the fast-track to an MDMA knockoff a Japanese firm bought for $1.23B, over the actual MDMA-for-PTSD program. The molecule that wins is the one engineered to need no therapist. The enclosure has reached the approval pathway itself. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Voucher Is the Enclosure

What could not be patented in the molecule, and could not be contained in the relation, is now being secured in the pathway.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The FDA's new psychedelic "priority vouchers" can't be sold. A voucher you can sell answers to a market. A voucher you can only be granted answers to a Commissioner, and behind him a White House that vetoed one program, then reversed after a text from a podcaster. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Voucher Is the Enclosure

What could not be patented in the molecule, and could not be contained in the relation, is now being secured in the pathway.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Taibbi calls the NY left an “elite fixation.” The returns: Mamdani won sub-$45k neighborhoods 52–42 and flipped the Bronx, America’s poorest urban county, from −18 to +11. On bus fares and rent. He didn’t read the data because the data ends his argument. My reply: open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Amalgam: A Reply to Matt Taibbi’s “Nitwit Revolution”

There is an old technique, older than Taibbi, older than the Substack it now pays for.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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Who Owns the Machines?

The New Democratic Program After Forty Years of Bourgeois Liberal Misdirection

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

And the federal-policy companion piece, the May 2026 National Drug Control Strategy, published and then quietly withdrawn, schedules the November 2026 hemp restriction and explicitly names Marinol and Epidiolex as the authoritative reference standard for cannabis. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Plant Has a Brand New Name

Eight days after I wrote that pharma had conceded the entourage effect, a German firm’s full-spectrum cannabis drug was approved in Europe under a trademark. The forecast is now a product on a shelf.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My dachshund is seventeen and has started the slow business of leaving. New essay about the long hours on the couch with him, and why the room with a dying animal is one of the last things capitalism hasn't found a way to sell back to you. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Last Unenclosed Hour

My dachshund is seventeen and has started the slow business of leaving. New essay about the long hours on the couch with him, and why the room with a dying animal is one of the last things capitalism ...

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The plant Linnaeus named for everyone in 1753 now answers to a word one company owns. Vertanical's Exilby was approved in Europe on June 9 under a trademark. New essay on how the cannabis movement won the science and lost the plant. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Plant Has a Brand New Name

Eight days after I wrote that pharma had conceded the entourage effect, a German firm’s full-spectrum cannabis drug was approved in Europe under a trademark. The forecast is now a product on a shelf.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A hundred dollars a month at a dispensary, thirty thousand a year once it carries a trademark. Nothing about the molecules changes. Ownership changes. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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The Plant Has a Brand New Name

Eight days after I wrote that pharma had conceded the entourage effect, a German firm’s full-spectrum cannabis drug was approved in Europe under a trademark. The forecast is now a product on a shelf.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The manosphere's wound is real (Case & Deaton, deaths of despair). Its cause is a lie (it was capital, not feminism). Its cure is a product (Anduril at $60B on the cage floor). Polanyi's double movement, captured and sold back. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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A Sky Full of Sponsors

How the right sells dispossessed men their own rebellion, and calls the enclosure of their manhood a rebirth

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Theweleit's "soldier male" walks again, this time with a Monster Energy sponsorship. On the manosphere as a counter-movement captured by capital and aimed at the powerless. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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A Sky Full of Sponsors

How the right sells dispossessed men their own rebellion, and calls the enclosure of their manhood a rebirth

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It is cheaper to give a man dominion over his wife than over his workplace, and the people who own the workplace have always understood this. New piece on misogyny as an instrument of accumulation. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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A Sky Full of Sponsors

How the right sells dispossessed men their own rebellion, and calls the enclosure of their manhood a rebirth

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The manosphere's wound is real (Case & Deaton, deaths of despair). Its cause is a lie (it was capital, not feminism). Its cure is a product (Anduril at $60B on the cage floor). Polanyi's double movement, captured and sold back. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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A Sky Full of Sponsors

How the right sells dispossessed men their own rebellion, and calls the enclosure of their manhood a rebirth

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

They said it wouldn't generalize. Tuesday it traveled to four districts in one night. Mamdani: 3-for-3 in Congress, the Brooklyn machine beaten on its own ground, the first Palestinian American sent to Albany. The only question on the ballot was who owns what. open.substack.com/pub/againste...

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Who Owns the City

Mamdani Went Three for Three. The Question Travels.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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Allegedly, a little bit, maybe per @Epistemic 😂 #politicalsatire #toddlertrump #fda #campdavid

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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Peter Coyote (@petercoyote1)

If His Mouth is Moving, He is lying. I need to call people’s attention to the new book by Andrew Weissman, often seen as a legal expert on MS-Now. Andrew Weissmann was one of the most senior and...

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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Mairy (@heavenlight)

Yesterday, I laid out the Kushner/Saudi Connection and the Albanian purchase - this is even deeper than my description…please listen to what this woman describes as the REAL reason they want Sazan Isl...

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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Tiina Payson (@grammatiina)

“We're at the using Russian propaganda to prosecute retired career public servants stage of the descent into fascism”

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Rick Diaz @rick0706.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth…

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It is cheaper to give a man dominion over his wife than over his workplace, and the people who own the workplace have always understood this. New piece on misogyny as an instrument of accumulation. open.substack.com/pub/delpotte...

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A Sky Full of Sponsors

How the right sells dispossessed men their own rebellion, and calls the enclosure of their manhood a rebirth

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Charlotte's Web started with a sick child's homemade extract. It is now a botanical drug with British American Tobacco as lead investor. The fence has a brand you trust painted on it. New piece. open.substack.com/pub/delpotte...

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The Plant Has a Brand New Name

Eight days after I wrote that pharma had conceded the entourage effect, a German firm’s full-spectrum cannabis drug was approved in Europe under a trademark. The forecast is now a product on a shelf.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thorstein Veblen needed four hundred pages in 1899 to describe the leisure class. Julie Macklowe needs one sentence. Of the whiskey she named after herself:"It's basically a way to burn up money,but it's great to see your cocktail on a menu."There it is: conspicuous consumption, conspicuous waste,1/

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A Phase 3 RCT just confirmed that full-spectrum cannabis works for chronic pain better than opioids. Cannabis advocates have been waiting for this paper for 2 decades. It published in Nature Medicine in December. It is also, structurally, the worst news the cannabis movement has had in 20 years.1/

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Make America Healthy Again,For Whom? Introducing What MAHA Doesn't Touch:a 5-part investigation.The first installment lands Wednesday,June 3.Why has the American "anti-pharma"movement,in the year of the largest profit expansion in pharma's history,spent most of its political capital on food dyes?1/

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Mamdani won NYC by finally pointing at the question American politics spent forty years refusing to ask:who owns what.Housing, transit, and now the machines.New essay on what walks through the door he just opened & the program the Democrats have to commit to. open.substack.com/pub/delpotte...

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Who Owns the Machines?

The New Democratic Program After Forty Years of Bourgeois Liberal Misdirection