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

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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