Interesting new research studying young people fom the US. It found that weed assists people with pre-existing mental health conditions to sleep whilst disrupting sleep for those without them. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n…

13 years in jail for the 'Machine Guy' who supplied industrial presses to dealers to make pills, including Etizolam bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

👏 for this BBC Panorama doc by Hazel Martin on UK booze culture and her liver disease. I randomly had my liver scanned recently at a mobile unit on Brighton beach (it was fine, I was surprised) and we need to normalise those more than getting wasted bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Do I know anyone that's a nerd about a) small European ports and b) cocaine getting into them?

I am writing an article about modern football fandom and would love to chat with people who take it brutally hard when their team loses – not just feeling shit that evening but who carry it around like a giant stone Mitre ball into the next week. Will be sensitively handled!

I missed it during the Xmas maelstrom but @TheNewEuropean published an article by me on Spain's re-emergence as Europe's top entry point for cocaine – and the effect coke use is having across the continent. theneweuropean.co.uk/david-hillier-…

When Elon Musk smoked with Joe Rogan in 2018, the internet broke. Since then, the strange and unusual behaviour of the world's richest man has been blamed on drugs. Are the substances really to blame? leafie.co.uk/culture/elon-m…

I'm trying to speak with an LGBTQ football fan that stopped supporting their club after they were taken over by a state with anti-homosexuality laws. Will be v.sensitively handled and can be anon! Cheers for any RTs in advance x

Are years of booze, coke and sunrises starting to take a toll? After noticing that 30-39 year olds were the biggest cohort for cocaine deaths, I looked at ‘the sesh’ and its impact on older users in the age of sober curiosity. For Mixmag > mixmag.net/feature/the-se…

I am a nerd for normalisation

Beautifully written, entertaining & well researched. Can tell when a writer takes care, time & effort to craft work- & David's done that with this piece. As a Gen X '88 raver- it's fascinating to see the evolution of partying + the triggers, fashions & culture that fuel it.

One final time around the smoking area for this I wrote on 'the sesh', its history, and whether millenials need to stop calling the bags in. Big 🙏 to Fiona Measham Dr Rayyan Zafar and Caroline Copeland (the latter of whom spoke to me on maternity leave ) for their wisdom.

All these psychedelic bros supporting Trump should be made to take a hero dose while their new president trip sits, eating endless Big Macs and very slowly reading out his list of executive orders.

All of the below? (Though only outdoors if the weather is good.)

I walked past Brighton Centre last week and it was a Jimmy Carr gig. There was a sniffer dog and I saw a pissed-off looking guy getting alerted, handing his wallet over. There was also an amnesty box! I dont go to standup much – is this level of security normal now?

Had a great chat about fandom, its modern evolution, and why we – especially Spurs fans – accept the emotional turmoil  of following a game where 11 lads in shorts kick a little ball into a polypropylene net. Cheers to Flav / @fightingcock podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2e…

This is a horrible horrible HORRIBLE headline about this poor girl's death. The story is the inadequacy of health and safety at Dreamland Margate, not this voyeuristic stigmatising rubbish The Mirror mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/t…

Really enjoyed my chat with Flav for The Fighting Cock. They are the Moussa Dembele of Spurs fan podcasts

"Silly man" caught selling weed at Todmorden annual country fair Headlines about drugs normally make me rage but really enjoyed the knockabout Britishness of this 🤪 examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-york…

An Army helicopter pilot accused of selling acid "believes bitcoin is sacred because of “the autonomy it gives visionary religious practitioners, such as himself” to facilitate the distribution of the “Holy Sacrament” (LSD) to his spiritual fellows". stripes.com/theaters/us/20…