I went to to see their commitment to safer festival spaces. Shout out to who had 8 (!) tents for every strata of welfare issue and for saving lives with their testing. This is the standard now imo. For
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Writer - mostly about drugs. Content, copy, and SEO road man. Bylines 
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I'm still struggling to process the full awfulness of The Times' expose yesterday, about the appalling practices of in fitting pay-as-you-go meters in the homes of vulnerable people.
It brought back terrible memories of my brother's suicide...
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This ad for executioners in a Sri Lanka newspaper is crazy
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR KILLERS
Whilst in Kandy, Sri Lanka, I encountered this horrendous advert in the local newspaper. The government there had recently decided to execute drug dealers, and were looking for cold blooded killers to fulfil their barbaric intent.
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Insightful and quietly uplifting thread on how prisoners saved an overdosed man with ice cubs and meth
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A man I lived with in prison overdosed on heroin. Using resources available to them, prisoners kept him alive with ice cubes and methamphetamine. A thread.
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In an industry that supports substances which supposedly cause 'ego death' - there sure are a hell of a lot of egos 🤷♂️
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This brilliant, relatable and non-schlocky harm reduc info on 🎈
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Cranstoun x Rave Aid Crew: Gassin’ about NOS! p.s banning stuff dont work fam! Have we not learnt? @Cranstoun_org
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This thread on Euro weed regs is the real stuff, deep and dirty
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I'm providing a global perspective - where Malta's reforms sit within the EU and wider international context.
The reforms are groundbreaking in the EU - Malta is the first to formally legalise & regulate, as I've attempted to explain in this thread;
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Menacing yet intriguing pivot from the "african prince"/ "I'm a lonely housewife in your area" approach to scam emails.
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"Psychedelics are not contained within an insular bubble anymore."
This psychedelics review of 2022 by in is on-the-nose in every way 👏👏👏
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After a brain-scramblingly busy period of work I've got some gaps opening up in the schedule. If you would like me to write about drug culture, psychedelics, mental health or my dog for your publication/brand/zine, please HMU ❄️❄️❄️ 🌈🌈🌈
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"Nights like these represented, to me, a glimpse into what we are without our armor: vulnerable, communicative, hopeful and a little bit messy."
This is a really lovely article by for on her well-spent youth taking pills
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Just realised been walking around all day with my shorts on backwards. ❤️WFH 4evs ❤️
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Absolutely warped shit here. (They've done a bang-up job with the picture tho so fair play.)
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Absolutely hilarious fear-mongering as to be expected from the Daily Fail…
Blame the ayahuasca! Not the individual!
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The revelations about Prince Harry’s drug use should be a surprise to nobody.
Rather they’re a reminder that drug use is common across society but those with privilege are less likely to face stigma or be criminalised.
#PrinceHarry #PrinceHarryMemoir #DrugUse
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Looking for someone America-based (and ideally harm reduction/advocacy-y rather than corporate) to contribute to an article about how to have a safe psychedelic trip. (I know I should just email people myself but it's late and my brain really hurts). #journorequest
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Research for my latest article has been a journey/trip etc etc
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This is a good resource if you are guiltily building up a big tin of old Elf bars in your kitchen
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Good article in the about the training for Oregon's first influx for psychedelic service centres. Fact they can't actually use mushrooms cos they haven't worked that bit out of the law yet shows how new this all is
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Oregon’s #psychedelic program makes the @nytimes. Pleased to see @AndrewJacobsNYT & those interviewed describe it as non-therapeutic. Measure 109 allows for the non-medical, supported adult use of #psilocybin, one of the five varieties of psychedelic law.
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"The study...found that in 2017, there were just over 200 reported cases of accidental consumption of cannabis edibles by children under six. In 2021, the number shot up to 3,054 – an increase of 1,375%."
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If you are going to buy edibles, keep them hidden from children you dimwits
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Do I know anyone (that knows anyone etc) that ran a headshop and/or website selling research chemicals before the PSA in 2016? UK-based. Thanks!
Anyone that uses the term disruptors – especially in relation to themselves – should be forced to move in with Jeremy Clarkson for a week
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Best non-fiction book I've read this year. Big recco, especially in commutable form.
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It’s publication day for the paperback of The Expectation Effect!
I love the new look from @canongatebooks amazing designers.
Huge thanks to everyone who has supported the book through its first year - I am enormously grateful for all the kind words and deeds 
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This is a lovely piece about a writer battling the struggles of infertility with the joy of a cherry red keytar 🎸 twitter.com/helenpidd/stat
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ICYMI: I wrote about pink tusi's rise from Medellin nightclubs to Manchester. For
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People caught in possession of substances such as cocaine, cannabis and MDMA will not be prosecuted under new plans.
The move aims to take pressure away from police officers for an offence that is viewed by many to be a public health issue.
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Also love and respect to the many dealers and deviants speaking off the record x
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As good a time as any to say 🙏 to all the sources I've spoken to this year. The best bit of my job is talking to people far smarter and/or kinder than me about work they do that changes lives. I am genuinely grateful (and often astounded) about their levels of patience with me
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My last article of 2022 charts the rise of pink tusi. Weird drug that literally anyone with a connect and some pink dye could make for a fraction of the asking price – and be much safer. Up on >>
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Science proves that cannabis makes chocolate nicer. Finally, some research I understand.
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important science:) I would bet that cannabis also increases the 'pleasurability' of kebab and pizza. twitter.com/AmirEnglund/st…1
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Interesting research klaxon
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Please share: We are conducting a research project on the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol consumption among undergraduate students at UK universities.
To take part: sheffieldpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6J
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Trying to find someone in Oregon who's keen to try psychedelic therapy but waiting for their legal healing centres to open #nicherequest
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Massive achievement from a crew of freakishly motivated students (aided by ) to publish a 17k word report into recreational benzo use. If anyone is ever looking for comment or insights into how young people use these drugs, are your source
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Our report is finally here!!
The Benzo Research Project: An evaluation of recreational benzodiazepine use amongst UK young people (18-25)
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Hey! I would like to speak someone who knows all the nuts and bolts of psychedelics regulation in the US for an article. (Inc MDMA and ketamine.) Maybe a lawyer? If this is you/your client and you're up for patiently answering some questions, plz give me shout #journorequest
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"Bigots will happily accept a panto dame but not a drag artist.”
This is an excellent article on the past, present and future of the panto dame, by
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Good job I don't self-identify as woke
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Don’t tell me you’re woke if you do coke independent.co.uk/life-style/coc
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Went to a Xmas party last week & bumped into a professional chef…so I asked him “ Do you know ANY professional chefs who use #NitrousOxide to whip cream?” “Nope we use CO2”
Thank you, I always thought this was bull
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All hail Zeus
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Worth reposting from @healing_maps and @tipado putting himself on the psychedelic map! Nice work zeus. From nearly one year ago! healingmaps.com/neuroscience-s
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Distressed prisoners made 13,000 calls to Samaritans in six months
Important 2 see mobile phone use in prison within a wider context. Every system is open to abuse. But what is the cost if we deprive majority based on misbehaving minority
theferret.scot/distressed-pri via @ferretscot