It might have been a gravity bong made from Gatorade bottle or a line of a neighbor's crushed up ADD meds. But anyone who's tried drugs and alcohol has experienced that frightening but exhilarating ritual of their first time getting faded. Author Dominic Milton Trott has made it his life's mission to make sure everybody from nervous newbies to seasoned psychonauts know what they're getting into, one substance at a time.

Dominic Milton Trott is a writer and explorer who has traveled the world to investigate psychoactive botanicals and indigenous cultures. He is the author of The Drug Users Bible and The Honest Drug Book: A Chemical and Botanical Journey. And by his own count he has ingested nearly 200 types of drug. His "Ten Commandments of Safer Drug Use" can be found as a FREE PDF here.

Here's some homework for you nerds who love to read:

https://www.ncsl.org/civil-and-criminal-justice/cannabis-overview

https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4371873-map-where-marijuana-will-be-legal-in-2024/ 

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/more-states-set-to-legalize-marijuana-and-psychedelics-in-2024-as-federal-cannabis-scheduling-review-concludes/ 

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-gen-z-is-drinking-less 

https://marketcast.com/insights/gen-z-millennials-embrace-a-sober-curious-lifestyle/ 

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220920-why-gen-zers-are-growing-up-sober-curious 

https://news.yahoo.com/beer-drinking-america-falls-lowest-165441254.html 

https://manhattan.institute/article/the-challenge-of-fentanyl-meth-and-other-synthetic-drugs 

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2023-07-08/fda-widens-door-to-research-on-psychedelics-like-ketamine-lsd-for-treatment-of-ptsd-depression-and-other-conditions

https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2023/07/03/mdma-psilocybin-and-ketamine-3-psychedelics-with-different-mental-health-use-cases/?sh=7b05b69a2e38

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23954347/psychedelics-bad-trips-ketamine-mdma-psilocybin-lsd-risks

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/is-portugals-drug-decriminalization-a-failure-or-success-the-answer-isnt-so-simple/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-drugs-decriminalization-heroin-crack/

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Everyone can tell you're high and you're in big, big trouble, mister... Just kidding! But before your hands start shaking and the comedown has you jonesing for more, here's another hit of wisdom from drug policy researcher Benjamin Y. Fong.

Benjamin Y. Fong is an Honors Faculty Fellow and the Director of the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University. He's written for Jacobin, Current Affairs, The Outline and the New York Times, and he's the author of Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge.

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If we haven't made it clear yet, Indecent's main guiding principle is pretty simple: no narcs allowed. Especially when we invite academic and author Benjamin Y. Fong over to hang out in our parents' basement to talk drugs, drug policy, and drug culture, and how Americans especially love to get smashed.

Benjamin Y. Fong is an Honors Faculty Fellow and the Director of the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University. He's written for Jacobin, Current Affairs, The Outline and the New York Times, and he's the author of Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge.

Here's some homework for you nerds who love to read:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/01/09/the-irrationality-of-modern-drug-laws-in-one-chart/

https://time.com/6340590/drug-war-politics-history/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/opinion/harm-reduction-public-health.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1006495476/after-50-years-of-the-war-on-drugs-what-good-is-it-doing-for-us

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1094672

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/05/31/concern-about-drug-addiction-has-declined-in-u-s-even-in-areas-where-fatal-overdoses-have-risen-the-most/

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/frontpage/2022/June/unodc-world-drug-report-2022-highlights-trends-on-cannabis-post-legalization--environmental-impacts-of-illicit-drugs--and-drug-use-among-women-and-youth.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/briefing/us-drug-policy-reducing-harm.html

https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/drug-policy-reform/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/the-us-has-spent-over-a-trillion-dollars-fighting-war-on-drugs.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9302017/

https://www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-public-policy/assets/Documents/220228-KT-LSE-SPP-policy-brief-FINAL.pdf

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34809536/

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/57119/1/more-young-people-are-using-drugs-to-escape-problems-than-have-fun

https://www.mic.com/life/young-people-drug-use-report

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g5dq/young-people-taking-more-drugs-new-research

https://time.com/5572691/420-marijuana-mexican-immigration/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.17104/1611-8944_2015_1_115

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html

https://theoutline.com/post/7909/why-some-south-american-indigenous-tribes-give-their-dogs-psychedelic-drugs

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No matter how you slice it, taste is subjective. Afterall, some of you probably argue that kombucha doesn't have the same flavor profile as horse piss. But one undeniable truth that food anthropologist Dr. Lauren Crossland-Marr genereously serves up is that there some pretty wild things going on with what we eat.

Dr. Lauren Crossland-Marr is a cultural anthropologist, who currently teaches at the University of Delaware. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher with GEAP-3, a network of social scientists exploring the application of the gene-editing technology CRISPR to agriculture and foodways. As part of the project, she wrote, hosted, and researched the podcast A CRISPR Bite. The use of technology in food was also the focus of her dissertation research project.

Here's some homework for you nerds who love to read:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/12/06/liver-king-steroids-apology-ancestral-diet/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/health/fda-drug-industry-fees.html

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2022/fda-fails-regulate-food-health-safety-hazards/

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4116267-forced-labor-may-be-common-in-u-s-food-system-study/

https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-20/the-us-has-a-food-waste-problem-and-it-s-getting-worse

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/snapshot/microwave-oven

https://nebraskacorn.gov/cornstalk/corn101/ten-products-you-didnt-know-were-made-with-corn/

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The truth can be tricky. Especially with things like photoshop and deep fakes casting doubt on everything from geopolitical conflicts to whether or not your favorite Insta model had buccal fat removal. Most of us probably have a healthy skepticism of everything we scroll past. But writer Natalie Beach knows from her friendship with influencer/OG scam queen Caroline Calloway that the journey through the little rectangular looking glasses in our hands goes way deeper than we think... 

Natalie Beach is an essayist, screenwriter, amateur handyman, and feminist killjoy based in Los Angeles. She also produces film and television with her husband through their company Video House. Her new book Adult Drama and Other Essays is out now from Hanover Square Press.

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You've probably seen them before, either online or IRL. It's the dead-eyed weirdos filming TikTok dances while blocking traffic or pranking innocent fast food employees that we all seemingly love to hate. And writer Natalie Beach draws on her personal experience to come to terms with the fact that they're not going anywhere.

Natalie Beach is an essayist, screenwriter, amateur handyman, and feminist killjoy based in Los Angeles. She also produces film and television with her husband through their company Video House. Her new book Adult Drama and Other Essays is out now from Hanover Square Press.

Here's some homework for you nerds who love to read:

https://www.papermag.com/butthole-sunning#rebelltitem3

https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtuber-jake-paul-believes-covid-is-a-hoaxand-i-am-fake-news

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/12/kim-kardashian-and-floyd-mayweather-sued-over-alleged-crypto-scam.html

https://www.insider.com/influencers-agreed-promote-lethal-cyanide-weight-loss-drink-2019-12

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/style/jake-paul-team-10.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/darreonnadavis/2023/06/27/sheins-influencer-trip-backlash-explained-and-what-we-know-about-allegations-against-them/?sh=3ae9db1b3508

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/jury-divided-over-whether-delivery-driver-who-shot-youtube-prankster-acted-in-self-defense/3432763/

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Spooky Season may only come once a year. But you can always keep a special place in your heart for the spirit of clawed, drooling monstrosities that want to tear off your flesh or plant their eggs in your brain, year round. That's why we gave folklore historian J.W. Ocker even more space to unleash these nightmares on you, the unsuspecting listeners...

J.W. Ocker is the award-winning author of macabre travelogues, spooky kid’s books, and horror novels. His nonfictions books include The New England Grimpendium and The New York Grimpendium (both Lowell Thomas Award winners), Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Award winner), A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts, and Cursed Objects: Strange But True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items. His novels for kids include Death and Douglas, The Smashed Man of Dread End, and The Black Slide. Ocker is also the creator of OTIS: Odd Things I've Seen, where he chronicles his visits to thousands of oddities of culture, art, nature, and history across the country and world with photos, articles, and through Odd Things I've Seen: The Podcast. His work has appeared on or in CNN.com, The Atlantic, Rue Morgue, the Boston Globe, The Guardian, TIME, and other places people stick writing. Ocker is from Maryland but has lived in New Hampshire for more than a decade.

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They lurk in your unlit basement or under your kid's bed, in crumbling old houses and the bushes outside cheerleader's slumber parties. Come to think of it, some creatures of the night aren't just physically dangerous. They kinda have a creepy, Cosby-like, "cop a feel while you're sleeping" type vibe. So we asked horror writer J.W. Ocker to help find the source of our fascination with these frightening figures.

J.W. Ocker is the award-winning author of macabre travelogues, spooky kid’s books, and horror novels. His nonfictions books include The New England Grimpendium and The New York Grimpendium (both Lowell Thomas Award winners), Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Award winner), A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts, and Cursed Objects: Strange But True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items. His novels for kids include Death and Douglas, The Smashed Man of Dread End, and The Black Slide. Ocker is also the creator of OTIS: Odd Things I've Seen, where he chronicles his visits to thousands of oddities of culture, art, nature, and history across the country and world with photos, articles, and through Odd Things I've Seen: The Podcast. His work has appeared on or in CNN.com, The Atlantic, Rue Morgue, the Boston Globe, The Guardian, TIME, and other places people stick writing. Ocker is from Maryland but has lived in New Hampshire for more than a decade.

Follow our spooky storytelling comedian Sandi Benton at @sandi.benton on IG or go to her website: sandibentoncomedy.com

Here's some homework for you nerds who love to read:

https://www.openculture.com/2020/03/the-foot-licking-demons-other-strange-things-in-a-1921-illustrated-manuscript-from-iran.html

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/persian-demons-from-a-book-of-magic-and-astrology-1921/

https://vocal.media/futurism/10-strange-vampires-from-around-the-world

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/vampire-history

https://news.virginia.edu/content/more-disease-dracula-how-vampire-myth-was-born-0

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-new-england-vampire-panic-36482878/

https://news.virginia.edu/content/how-spread-disease-juiced-lore-vampires-pandemic-proportions

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/07/cursed-from-circe-to-clinton-why-women-are-cast-as-witches

https://theconversation.com/most-witches-are-women-because-witch-hunts-were-all-about-persecuting-the-powerless-125427

https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/what-is-antisemitism/why-the-jews-history-of-antisemitism

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It's always "Hail Satan," and never "How is Satan?" Seriously, he must be really burnt out from being the source of all of everyone's problems for thousands of years. American Hysteria host Chelsey Weber-Smith continues to point out that he's the OG scapegoat. But he's far from the only boogeyman we blame when things in our world go badly.

Chelsey Weber-Smith is the writer, co-producer, and host of American Hysteria, a show that investigates our moral panics, urban legends, conspiracy theories, and archetypes, basically our special brand of fantastical thinking. They also write country music and rambles around the United States building campfires and hoping for the best. Chelsey is a graduate of the University of Virginia's MFA program in poetry and has written and self-published two chapbooks, a travel memoir, and two full-length folk/country albums, and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Their work has been published in BOAAT, Transom, Matter, Wu-Wei Fashion Mag, the James Franco Review, and Miracle Monocle. They currently live in Seattle.

Follow them at @americanhysteriapodcast on Instagram!

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If you found out all of your neighbors, co-workers and vague acquaintances were cannibalistic, demon-worshipping child molesters, would that make you feel better or worse about the nature of reality, overall? American Hysteria's host Chelsey Weber-Smith calls out the Devil as a convenient scapegoat for people who want to oversimplify the problems facing our world.

Chelsey Weber-Smith is the writer, co-producer, and host of American Hysteria, a show that investigates our moral panics, urban legends, conspiracy theories, and archetypes, basically our special brand of fantastical thinking. They also write country music and rambles around the United States building campfires and hoping for the best. Chelsey is a graduate of the University of Virginia's MFA program in poetry and has written and self-published two chapbooks, a travel memoir, and two full-length folk/country albums, and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Their work has been published in BOAAT, Transom, Matter, Wu-Wei Fashion Mag, the James Franco Review, and Miracle Monocle. They currently live in Seattle.

Follow them at @americanhysteriapodcast on Instagram!

Here's some homework for you nerds who love to read:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43697573

https://web.archive.org/web/20180521193259/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/31/us/proof-lacking-for-ritual-abuse-by-satanists.html?sq=satanic+ritual+abuse&scp=1&st=nyt

"Indecent with Kiki Andersen" is a production of Next Chapter Podcasts.

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Produced by Pete Musto & Max Wolfson

Executive produced by Jeremiah Tittle

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