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August 8, 2014 Marina Galperina

At the Burning Fleshtival, “Hey, man, can you help me out?” really means “Hey, man, check this rock chained around my balls for me?”  The Red Light District is a basement of a house in the suburbs on the beach in New York City. Walking around the Rockaway neighborhood, you’d never know that behind this nondescript house, […]

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August 5, 2014 Sophie Weiner

The Electric Zoo festival has released an anti-drug PSA hilariously titled “The Molly,” as part of their “Come To Life” campaign ahead of the Randal’s Island festivities this year. Attendees will be forced to watch the two minute video, written and directed by Dexter creator James Manos, Jr., in order to activate their wristbands and enter the festival. Anti-drug […]

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July 28, 2014 Backdoor Pharmacist

Over the weekend, 15 people arrived in New York’s emergency rooms with suspected severe reactions to fake weed blends with stupid names like “K2, Spice, Green Giant, Geeked Up, Caution, Smacked, Wicked X, AK-47” and god knows what else. The New York Health Department even issued a warning yesterday, noting the 220% increase in synthetic […]

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July 7, 2014 Sophie Weiner

According to a recently published study by the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs, “Stimulant but not cannabis intoxication is associated with excessive alcohol consumption.” Of those surveyed, MDMA-users on stimulants are more likely to binge drink than weed-smokers high on weed. Ecstasy users who were intoxicated with stimulants (n = 91) were more likely to binge drink than […]

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July 1, 2014 Backdoor Pharmacist

JWH-018, and other JWH chemicals, are naphthoylindole synthetic cannabinoids. They were originally developed by Professor John W. Huffman, who is now very disappointed with us kids and wants cannabis to be legal. Entrepreneurs used Professor Huffman’s work by spraying relatively inert plant matter with his discoveries to make “legal weed” or “synthetic weed” incense blends […]

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June 12, 2014 Backdoor Pharmacist

There’s brownies, chocolate bars, butane hash oil, you can smoke, you can vape, now there’s another way to take cannabis, vaginally. Foria, made by a California collective The Aphrodite Group, has made a cannabis infused “sensual enhancement oil” that can purported enhance sexual pleasure. As “Stacy” says on a testimonial posted on their site: “I had […]

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June 6, 2014 Backdoor Pharmacist

Green, blue, pink pills, each carrying the stamp of Snapchat’s jolly old ghost, how cute. Too bad these pressed ecstasy tablets are sending people to the hospital in Australia. The Daily Telegraph reports that four people, who had taken half of Snapchat pill, became “aggressive and disoriented after ingesting the drug and were taken to […]

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Sophie Weiner

The city of Chicago is suing five of the biggest pharmaceutical companies for “ten counts of fraud, conspiracy, unjust enrichment, insurance fraud, misrepresentation in advertising, and other violations of Chicago municipal code,” Vice reports. The case against Big Pharma is pretty damning. The lawsuit alleges that these massive corporations have been in conspiracy to sway the public towards […]

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June 3, 2014 Backdoor Pharmacist

Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, biochemist, psychopharmacologist, author, and critic of US drug policy, has passed away at age 88 from liver cancer, surrounded by his friends and family. He leaves behind a wife and partner, Ann Shulgin. He is most well known as the “Godfather of Ecstasy,” the scientist who turned it from an offhand mention […]

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May 13, 2014 Backdoor Pharmacist

Gabapentin (Neurontin) is a derivative of the neurotransmitter GABA. They’re used as anticonvulsants and as a painkiller specifically for neuropathic pain. Gabapentin’s effects are so similar to others, but have no direct comparison. It has its own unique magic. It’s a strange hybrid, and the closest is its stronger brother pregabalin (Lyrica). While gabapentin is […]

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