Life
This is what it’s like to experience never-ending acid trips
People having perpetual hallucinations from psychedelic drugs are finding a community on TripTok. But how rare is the condition, and is it becoming more common?
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Life
The age of K: how ketamine became the decade’s defining drug
Ket therapy labs have swept the US, recreational use is more popular than ever and pop culture references are everywhere you look. Here’s how a drug once associated with delinquency and seediness became the 2020's most sought after narcotic.
Life
Trip Epiphanies: help, mushrooms made me bisexual!
How one bad trip sent a gay man into a sexual kerfuffle.
Society
Reading and Leeds will offer drug advice for the first time
The Look Out For Each Other initiative will promote risk awareness among this year’s festival-goers.
Life
A foursome in a darkroom… sort of
A Single Man: when you’re feeling down, a solid night out can be as medicinal as taking painkillers to treat a headache, our gay sex columnist reckons.
Culture
Will Poulter on Dopesick’s strong medicine
London Film Festival: the Londoner is starring in the other must-watch TV drama of the season (the other being Succession) (you knew that).
Culture
Trauma Hurts: a film of family, love, loss and hope
Artist Tan Gillies’ new film explores the intense highs and lows of growing up, presented through the mysticism of Iceland, and the chaos of London.
Life
Antics from a fRüity Party
A party in an abandoned leisure centre, a hot, boxy, broken sauna and a bouncy castle - this is part two of a fictional weekend adventure.
Life
Dancing on a cracked-out houseboat
Introducing a fictional – and rather relatable – tale with outlandish antics from the weekend. For our first instalment, it’s January, it’s fucking cold and well… we’re on a boat.
Archive
What was it like on the set of Trainspotting?
February, 1996: A first-hand scoop into the bleak world of the ’90s cult classic, taken from our archive.
Culture
Controversial memoir ‘A Million Little Pieces’ gets the YBA treatment
Sam Taylor-Johnson opens up about the film tackling addiction and the controversy surrounding a “memoir” built on lies.
Society
The unlikely bond between crypto and psychedelics
Taking tabs to trip into a new realm is more entwined with opening dozens of tabs to trade crypto than you might think…
Culture
Deep Sniff: poppers and the pursuit of pulsating pleasure
Adam Zmith’s new book explores the history of poppers, from its medicinal properties to its hedonistic centre stage in queer culture. Aaaaand inhale...
Life
The police are giving out free weed vapes
Working alongside medicinal weed advocacy group Cancard, the forces are trialling a new scheme to reduce the smell of cannabis in social housing.
Culture
In photos: the sweat-soaked ecstasy of British clubs
Contact, a new photobook by Harry Hawkes, documents the intoxicating bodies gathering in clubs post-pandemic, all in the name of human interaction.
Style
Five of Gregg Araki’s most fashionable films
The cult director brought Generation Alienation to the screen, with costumes that reflected the anxiety, nihilism and rebellion of ’90s youth.
Culture
Nights of Violence: love and grief in the face of addiction
Artist Tan Gillies mixes moving image, painting, sculpture and photography in a soul-bearing new exhibition tackling mental health, domestic abuse and the hard road to getting clean.
