Fragments from the Demise of the Pharmaceutical

by Joseph Dumit and Emilia Sanabria
Aug 25, 2020

Part of a series of Post-Covid Fantasies at American Ethnologist, edited by Catherine Besteman, Heath Cabot, and Barak Kalir .

Bosco Verticale’s 2022 cannabis harvest (Hundertwasser strain) provided Milan hospitals with a novel antiviral terpene formulation that demonstrated lung tissue reparative properties, leading to Italy-wide home-trials, three new protective strains, and several remarkably colorful psychoactive ones. Derivatives now form the basis for one of VivaData’s largest planet-wide trials to date. Image: Il Bosco Verticale in primavera visto dal lato Ovest. Marco Salo (Creative Commons)