On a research trip to Berlin, LA-based journalist Michelle Lhooq — Rave New World (Substack) and Weed: Everything You Wanted to Know But Are Too Stoned to Ask (Penguin, 2017) — stops by NM to share her recent findings on the state of drugs and drug culture in the EU, US, and beyond. We discuss nü party paradigms and legalization grifts, “spectrum sobriety,” emergent synthetics, and the gentrification of club drugs like K, MDMA, and 3-MMC. Plus Lil Internet fills in some context with explainers on Berlin’s Telegram drug delivery services, the global rise of Indian Tramadol, and how legalization alone may not improve Berlin’s sub-par weed.
For more:
IG: @michellelhooq
Substack: Rave New World
Book: Weed (2017, Penguin)
