On Tuesday the second season of Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia premiered on VICE. This show is one of the best series going and I’ve been anxiously awaiting this season since first hearing that new installments were imminent. The “Hamilton” of the title is Hamilton Morris — he’s the son of renowned documentary director Errol Morris and a kind of professional stoner. This show captures Hamilton’s world travels as he makes his way to drug dens, shaman circles, scientific laboratories, and hippie hideaways around the globe in search of the highest highs that plants, compounds and pharmaceuticals have to offer. In the first episode of this new season Hamilton heads to the Sonoran desert in Arizona to search for a psychedelic frog that literally oozes DMT. Along the way he also plays detective as he searches for Albert Most, the author of the mysterious pamphlet Bufo Alvarius: the Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert…

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