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Evolve Festival in Nova Scotia Almost Got Cancelled For Offering Free Drug Testing to Attendees
The festival’s insurance company were none too pleased, but the party goes on.
The Truth About Flakka: the Latest 'Cannibal Drug'
Last year it was bath salts, the year before that it was mephedrone – but there has always been bullshit.
Inside New Zealand's Synthetic Drug Scene
"The pioneers of drug use were looking for a particular experience, and they found it after a journey. Now you just get the destination and miss the journey."
What About a Regulated Market For Psychoactive Substances?
In Australia, a blanket ban on novel psychoactive substances is on the cards. Experts say that will drive producers underground.
A Young Chemist Explains How Legal Highs Work
Mathias develops and synthesizes potentially psychoactive chemicals for research purposes, but he says that you're better off taking mushrooms than anything he's cooked up.
Fake Drugs Are Taking Over Music Festivals—Here’s What You Can Do
A new documentary called "What's In Your Baggie?" is just the tip of a larger, looming problem.
A History of Bad Legal Highs
There are a million legal ways to get high, from airplane glue to just holding your breath for a while. In fact, most legal highs suck. But for many people, especially very young people, legal highs are the easiest way to pleasantly scramble your brain...
UN Warns of Unprecedented Surge in Synthetic Drug Use Worldwide
Although they are sold openly and described as “legal highs,” the effects of these drugs are not any less harmful and often can be fatal.
Synthetic Drugs Are Busted All Over the US
The DEA announced a massive crackdown on synthetic drugs, which has rounded up more than 150 people across 29 states so far.
I Dated an MCAT Addict for Two Very High Months
My first time taking MCAT I thought I'd pop a pill at 10 PM and go to bed early. But then I did another one around 2 AM, and another at 4 AM, and another at 10 AM. You know where this story is going.
Bath Salts in the Wound
Few places were as primed for the plague of bath salts as the Southeast neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia. Before long, buyers swarmed the tobacco stores that carried it. Salt users would show up at a retailer five or six times a day. The lines were...