Background
Hamilton Morris was born in New York City, the son of Julia Sheehan and documentary filmmaker Errol Morris.
Hamilton Morris was born in New York City, the son of Julia Sheehan and documentary filmmaker Errol Morris.
He attended the University of Chicago and The New School, where he studied anthropology and science.
He was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a teenager Morris appeared in television commercials, notably a 2002 advertisement for the first-generation iPod. 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 (television series) on Home Box Office. Morris frequently consults with media on the subject of designer 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.