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In Medellín, Colombia, authorities are cracking down on ‘burundangeras,’ women who use a substance called scopolamine to drug, manipulate and rob foreigners.
‘I lost all my money, but I also lost the ability to think.’
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The allure of fight porn and the ultraviolent soup careening around social media is that anyone can get into a street fight.
'It’s like billions of cortisol spikes frying our brains every day.'
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I was jogging in central Basel last week when I spotted the word “SANDOZ” written in huge letters on a five-storey building. Could this, I wondered, be the very building where the world’s most famous psychedelic was born?
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Four years ago, I visited the remote Mexican town where María Sabina helped introduce the Western world to psilocybin mushrooms. But how ancient really is the tradition?
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Thanks to The Wolf of Wall Street, underground chemists and drug-taking connoisseurs, a small new generation is discovering Quaaludes. Could they even make a modest contribution to ending the sex-cession?
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I was back on the @voxdotcom Today, Explained podcast to explain the difference between kratom and 7-OH, whether the concern over the two arises from a moral panic or genuine issues, and if banning either of them would be wise.
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A person very high on ketamine may still be able to walk, talk and respond to instructions — while having little idea what is happening.
For @guardian, I looked at what the Cornell case tells us about the dissociative, sexual assault and consent laws.
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The entropic brain hypothesis has been the leading explanation for how psychedelics work in the brain, but new research suggests it's not that simple.
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In 1976, the future leading light of psychedelic art, Alex Grey, worked at a Boston morgue. Years later, he described having sex with a corpse there as part of a piece he called Necrophilia. Then he recast what happened.
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At the World Ayahuasca Forum, 100 Indigenous leaders gathered to discuss what happens when an intense psychedelic potion becomes a global phenomenon. I attended too — and I had questions.
Latest on my Substack: Mattha Busby on Drugs.
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Available to watch over on YouTube now.
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I'm speaking in London with @PsychedelicsUK on 4 Nov. Over more than a decade, I’ve been as much a participant in the psychedelic renaissance as a reporter — along the way I’ve met good shamans and bad shamans. This is the story of it all. (It'll be fun.)
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I wrote a long read for the Guardian about the evolution of the British trap house, focusing on the story of a friend of mine who was 'cuckooed' twice in London. The first time was grim, but the second cuckooing sparked a fascinating friendship.
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He told them he was investing their millions, but the FBI hasn’t been able to recover any of the money, and none of the women who survived The Family have received a cent of the $14 million in restitution ordered by a court.
For the latest @VICE magazine
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Welcome to my new Substack: Mattha Busby on Drugs.
I’ve spent much of the past decade writing about drugs, taking some of them, talking to the people who make, sell, study, administer and consume them, and occasionally learning things the hard way.
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really interesting conversation with @matthabusby about covering drug legalization, MAHA support for psychedelics, and more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Quaaludes were banned in 1984, but in the years following the 2013 blockbuster hit “The Wolf of Wall Street,” the party drug is resurfacing.
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Quaaludes all but vanished after the US banned the euphoric sleeping pills in 1984. Then the 2013 movie Wolf of Wall Street plucked quaaludes from the annals of drug history and became a box office hit.
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