The European ecstasy supply has just gotten more dangerous. For around the past half a decade, the supply has been clean. But in the past couple of weeks, pills with a much more toxic substance, PMMA, have been popping up in the Netherlands, Austria, and Switzerland. Here's everything you need to know. The Loop does city centre drug testing in London (Hackney, Camden, and Ealing) and Bristol (St Pauls). More info on that here: https://www.wearetheloop.org/drug-checkingIf you’re outside London or Bristol, I’d recommend the postal testing service WEDINOS: https://wedinos.wales/Follow Dr. Rayyan Zafar here: https://www.instagram.com/rayyanzaf/?hl=enPre-order Adam Fierman’s book, 𝙁𝘼𝘾𝙀𝙎 𝙊𝙁 𝙀𝘾𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙎𝙔, here (it’s out on 22 October, 2026): https://www.dutchcandy.art/product-page/book-faces-of-ecstasyCheck out Professor David Nutt’s charity 𝘿𝙧𝙪𝙜 Science:https://www.drugscience.org.uk/

Both state surveillance and surveillance capitalism are increasingly becoming an issue at UK festivals. In this video, I look at a couple of examples in detail. Watch my full-length interviews for free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/SimonDohertyNOTE: This content is made by hand. This channel is committed to a 0% 𝐀𝐈 policy.Chapters:0:00 Data, Data, Data! 1:02 PART 1: Big Bro is Watching 4:27 AD: EZ TEST Kits4:47 PART 2: Railing Against the Machine 8:15 PART 3: Becoming the Machine17:25 PART 4: What Changed? 20:31 PART 5: The (Bleak) Wider Picture Tunes:Glitch - Recall is under a Creative Commons BY 3.0 license.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... / playlist Music powered by BreakingCopyright: • 💊 Psychedelic & Techno (Free Music) - "REC... 🔎 Find more music here: https://breakingcopyright.com§Ambient Drone | Tension by Alex-Productions | https://youtu.be/UYdjkWNk4N8 Music promoted by https://onsound.eu/§🎵 Artist: BNCM – Best No Copyright MusicListen while you're out and about, on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/60APrcjsW9jKl9JTkwe5QAFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@simon.doherty Follow on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/_simon_doherty

Use the promo code ‘𝘚𝘌𝘚𝘏’ for a 10% discount on all EZ Test kits 👉 https://eztestkits.com/en-ukI took your questions to world-renowned neuropsychopharmacologist Professor David Nutt. He’s former chief government 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙨 adviser (until he was fired for telling the truth about 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙨), founder of 𝘿𝙧𝙪𝙜 Science, and best-selling author. Thanks to everyone who submitted a question! I only got an hour with the Professor, I asked as many as I could. Check out 𝘿𝙧𝙪𝙜 Science: https://www.drugscience.org.ukDavid’s books: https://www.drugscience.org.uk/booksThis video is for journalistic and documentary purposes.

For some underground manufacturers, making the perfect 𝙚𝙘𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙮 𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙡 is not just a job. It's a calling. An art form. And a matter of personal pride. In this video, we hear from two Dutch guys who mastered that art. (The quotes are voiced by an actor.)These interviews, conducted by Adam Fierman, feature in a new book called 𝙁𝘼𝘾𝙀𝙎 𝙊𝙁 𝙀𝘾𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙎𝙔, by Adam Fierman and Peter Andrew Lusztyk. It contains 1,200+ images, 26 underworld interviews, and a bunch of stories, memories, and mysteries from three decades of 𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙡 design and production. It’s released on 22 October, you can pre-order it here: https://www.dutchcandy.art/checkout?checkoutId=ca727402-4c16-4582-a14d-da601c06f789NOTE: This content is made by hand. This channel is committed to a 0% 𝐀𝐈 policy. This video is for journalistic, documentary, and educational purposes.

This is the story of one of the largest 𝙥𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙘 manufacturing operations the world has ever seen. If you bought 𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙙 anywhere in the world in the late 1970s, there was a 60% chance it came from this one source. If you were in the UK, that went up to 90%. It’s a story of love, betrayal, buried treasure, and the UK’s biggest ever police raid (800 officers from 11 forces arrested 120 people). This is the story of The Microdot Gang, and I'm telling it with the help of author James Wyllie.Read James' book on this (out in paperback in July 2026): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Microdot-Gang-Network-Turned-World/dp/0750996005

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Max Daly is a veteran crime and drug culture journalist with over 30 years of experience. He’s the co-author of Narcomania: How Britain Got Hooked On Drugs, co-author of Breaking Klad: Russia’s Dead Drop Drug Revolution, and he was the Global Drugs Editor at VICE Media for many years.

In this podcast, we talk about why people in America are taking much less coke, Belgium's narcos, and Russia's dead drop drugs delivery system. And there's a bunch of anecdotes from his journalistic adventures thrown in for good measure.

Check out his book: Narcomania: How Britain Got Hooked On Drugs: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Narcomania-How-Britain-Hooked-Drugs/dp/0099538032

Here are the articles we discuss:

Why America is falling out of love with cocaine

Is Belgium a Narco-State?

Breaking Klad: Russia’s Dead Drop Drug Revolution

Here’s his Substack:⁠https://maxdaly.substack.com/⁠

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The Channel Islands are two British crown dependencies, Guernsey and Jersey, in the English Channel just off the Normandy coast of France. In Jersey, 6% of the working age population have a medical 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙙 prescription – a higher number per capita than anywhere else in the world. I went there to learn more.

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Use my promo code ‘𝘚𝘌𝘚𝘏’ for a 10% discount on all EZ Test kits 👉 https://eztestkits.com/en-ukDr Rayyan Zafar is a neuropsychopharmacologist who researches 𝙥𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙨 and medical 𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙨. I took your questions to him. This video was filmed at Subrosa Studios: a new music production, content creation, and livestreaming studio in London. More info here 👉 https://www.subrosa-studios.com/Check out Rayyan's research: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/r.zaf...Follow him here:   / rayyanzaf  Listen while you're out and about, on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/60APrcj...Follow on TikTok:   / simon.doherty   Follow on Insta:   / _simon_doherty  #simondoherty MusicAmbient Downtempo | Breaking News by Alex-Productions | • Ambient Downtempo Electronic corporate (No... Music promoted by http://onsound.eu/

Use the promo code ‘𝘚𝘌𝘚𝘏’ for a 10% discount on all EZ Test kits 👉 https://eztestkits.com/en-ukWhen it comes to 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙜 culture journalism, Mattha Busby is one of the best to ever do it. I picked five of his stories and asked him to tell me more about them.

Follow Mattha:   / matthabusby  https://x.com/matthabusbyhttps://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7vqh...Mattha’s books:https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/pr...https://www.roughtrade.com/product/ma...Here’s all the articles we talk about in this podcast…𝘼 ‘𝘿𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣,’ 𝙖 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙮𝙖𝙝𝙪𝙖𝙨𝙘𝙖 𝙏𝙧𝙞𝙥 𝙂𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙒𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜https://archive.is/6XYX6𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙄𝙨 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝘽𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙖’𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙡 𝘽𝙖𝙧 𝙄𝙨 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚https://archive.is/Pcbg8𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙨 𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝 𝙤𝙣 ‘𝘿𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙨’https://archive.is/g6Xn5𝙐𝙆 𝘿𝙧𝙪𝙜 𝘼𝙙𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝘿𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙋𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 2016, 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙠 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙨https://archive.is/bk0OU𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙤𝙣 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙮 https://doubleblindmag.com/inside-the...NOTE:

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In the 1990s, the alcohol industry colluded with corrupt British politicians, crooked scientists, and unscrupulous tabloid journalists, all with one aim: to bring down rave culture.

In 1993, market analysts published a report into the future of the UK hospitality industry and it sent shivers down the spine of Big Booze. Between 1987 and 1992, pub attendance in the UK fell by 11%, with a projected 20% decrease by 1997. People drank less as they were more interested in 𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨. Estimates used in the report suggested the percentage of 16-24s taking any 𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙜 doubled to nearly 30% between 1989 and 1992. Not only that, they said that one million people a week were attending 𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙡 raves spending £1.8 billion a year there.

Big Booze was losing revenue and the government was losing the tax on that revenue. Both had a vested interest to bring down rave culture. And that’s why they colluded in a conspiracy to take it down. What followed was an unbelievable mix of dodgy politicians taking bribes, paid-off scientists publishing fake findings, and unethical journalists publishing propaganda. The puppeteers pulling the strings controlling all of these people was the alcohol industry.