The Next Time I See You
Reflections on Israel and the people we lost - in the wake of the Oct 7th attacks
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My grandfather was a death row doctor. He tested psychedelic drugs on Texas inmates.
A quest to learn my grandfather's story leads to death row — and a little-known series of experiments that involved giving hallucinogens to inmates in the early 1960s.
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Go to Sleep, You Weary Hobo: Richard “Kinky” Friedman, 1944-2024
He’s gone but most of us are still here. And on a hot summer evening, in the crepuscular hours before nightfall, I’ll send a salute skyward to the great Kinky Friedman, a hero of my Texas childhood.
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About Ben Hartman

Ben Hartman is an American-Israeli journalist and cannabis writer. Originally from Austin, for seven years he worked as a reporter and columnist for The Jerusalem Post, and prior to that, as an editor and writer for Haaretz.com for three years. His writings have appeared in The Daily Beast, The Texas Tribune, High Times, The Atlantic, CNN.com, The Texas Observer, Tablet, The Forward and The Jewish Chronicle.

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