DEGENERATE GUIDES & ALTERED STATES COLUMN | ISSUE TWELVE | NOSTALGIA Written by Isaac Tenzing | Drugs Columnist Illustrated by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor-in-Chief “Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime…” In between heads full of mescaline and adrenochrome, Hunter S. Thompson would occasionally daydream about his so-called “main era”: the 1960s, a peak he proclaimed may never come back again, describing it as the...

DEGENERATE GUIDES & ALTERED STATES COLUMN | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Isaac Tenzing | Drugs Columnist Illustrated by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor-in-Chief Holstered within his work belt: 4 Asahi Super Dry cans and a singular joint. My friend tottered into the living room of this particular North Shore house party and proclaimed, “I DON'T WANT TO DIE TILL I'VE HAD SEX ON METH.” He might not have been a wise man, but at this moment, to me, he was the closest...

COLUMN | ISSUE TEN | ISOLATION Written by Isaac Tenzing | Drugs Columnist Theoretically endless. The answer to both how long a piece of string is and how many videos you can find of Joe Rogan talking about isolation tanks on YouTube. The wellness influencer community seemingly has a new topic for their self-help manuals every other week. Podcasts recorded en masse aim to sell your soccer mum neighbour on the idea of cortisol management. Humorously enough, infatuations with these mindfulness...