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Drugs are… good? No, that can’t be right. Can it?
Most research assumes that drug use is a problem to be solved and drug users are criminals or victims that, either way, need to be dealt with. But what if that assumption is the actual problem? Read more
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“Drugs are bad,” he said, sipping his beer: Legality vs. social acceptability
There are socially acceptable drugs, and there are immoral/unacceptable drugs—and these don’t always correlate with their legality. While many in the mainstream accept the status quo of conflating a drug’s legality with its acceptability, to those who choose to use both legal and illegal drugs, a drug’s morality has nothing to do with its legal… Read more
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A state of trance: Inner peace rising from chaos
Your eyes are flooded with colour and light, your entire body is an extension of the music that’s being sculpted in real time all around you, and with every person you lock eyes with, you know they’re feeling the exact same thing. There’s an untouchable inner peace that rises out of the chaos. Read more
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A happy ending for 30,000 mollyed-out kids running around Toronto.
Hurricane Shitwind causes Digital Dreams to be cancelled. I already had my fanny pack on and everything! But Day 2 goes off in an explosion of neon and rain boots. Read more
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Psytrance, a world unto itself
The misfit table in your high school cafeteria, all grown up and not giving a fuck. These weirdos know how to party. Read more
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Field Notes: This data collection is interfering with my dancing.
Forgive the crude and candid nature of these notes. I have never been able to maintain the illusion that I am above using words like “clusterfuck”. Read more
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 