Hamilton Morris

Hamilton Morris (born April 14, 1987) is an American journalist, science writer, researcher, and editor who lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Hamilton Morris was born in New York City, the son of Julia Sheehan 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 science. He began writing for Vice Magazine as a college sophomore and was given 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. He is a science editor of Vice Magazine and a correspondent for Vice (TV series) on HBO. Morris frequently consults with media on the subject of psychoactive drugs and conducts pharmacological research at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia with an emphasis on the synthesis and history of dissociative anesthetics.

Morris is currently writing books about clandestine chemistry and the murder of mycologist Steven Pollock.

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: An interview with Alexander Shulgin
• Icelandic mushroom picking
• 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 USA
• The Story of the South African Quaalude
• Magic Mushrooms in Mexico
• The Story of Salvia Divinorum