That time I got ridiculously high at Stern Grove festival
A voice from the mystical beauty of the eucalyptus forest called to me. It said: “You need to experience this on molly.”...
DrugsA collection of 12 posts
Why I left the Tenderloin
The TL was like a toxic boyfriend I spent years making excuses for in San Francisco....
A Day in the Life of Silicon Valley’s Limitless
I boosted my brain to oblivion...
The Outbreak of Fentanyl Shows How Broken the War on Drugs Is
And how safe injection sites might decrease overdoses...
Living in a 20-Person Mansion in the Sunset
Salvation on Santiago: saving others, losing myself...
Will Federal Law Enforcement Crack Down on Burning Man?
Jeff Sessions is a-huntin’ some sittin’ ducks....
San Franciscans Share Their Funny and Embarrassing Drug-Buying Stories
Drug dealers in San Francisco have evolved from that one sketchy kid who hangs out on Haight to an app...
How to Pass a Drug Test
For a time I dated a guy who liked to spend his weekends filling up Instagram with city photos of...
The Most Commonly Used Drugs in San Francisco
A rundown of how people are getting high in the city....
Ayahuasca Made Me Purge My Guts and My Boyfriend
By Linzi Oliver...
When Is a Little Coke Too Much?
People who do drugs every day are drug addicts, but I didn’t feel like one...
Telling Your Friends You’re Sober
By the time my decades-long chemical spree had ended, I had published a memoir about my exploits that a sober friend called a “drunkalogue” — a reference to AA disclosures that painstakingly detail every gutter puked in, stranger punched and bedsheet peed upon....