The North Hollywood woman dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” by prosecutors pleaded guilty Wednesday to supplying the ketamine that led to actor Matthew Perry’s overdose death in a hot tub two years ago. Jasveen Sangha, 42, appeared in federal court in downtown Los Angeles and pleaded guilty to five felony charges, …
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If his posts on his social media site, X, are any indication, Elon Musk is letting a New York Times report that he’s taken so much ketamine he can’t pee right get to him. “To be clear, I am NOT taking drugs!” Musk wrote on Saturday. “The New York Times …
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Elon Musk’s use of ketamine was so intense during the 2024 campaign that he complained it was negatively affecting his bladder function, according to a New York Times report detailing the billionaire’s drug use as he joined President Donald Trump’s circle last year. The Times paints a picture of a …
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A California doctor charged with supplying admittedly “dangerous” amounts of liquid ketamine to Matthew Perry without proper medical monitoring pleaded guilty Wednesday to his role in the Friends actor’s ketamine overdose death last year. Dr. Mark Chavez appeared in a federal courtroom in downtown Los Angeles and entered the plea …
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The last time I did ketamine, inside San Diego’s Kadima Neuropsychiatry Institute, my first hallucinatory stop found me right at home, surrounded by the cushy, lovable walls of what I’ve always called my crimson corduroy cathedral, but then, just like that, those walls gave up their support, tilted in on …
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One of the doctors charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s ketamine overdose death made his first appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom Friday under his cooperation deal with prosecutors. Dr. Mark Chavez was one of five people charged with supplying large quantities of ketamine to Perry before he was found …
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Pete Davidson dropped his third hourlong stand-up special (and second for Netflix) in the early hours of Jan. 9. Titled Pete Davidson: Turbo Fonzarelli, it’s far and away his most confident, assured, and hilarious one yet, featuring rapid-fire jokes about everything from a Make-A-Wish scenario gone awry and navigating his …
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The solipsism of artists and influencers offers infinite variations on self-lacerating lampoon, and Sebastian Silva’s new film Rotting in the Sun comes up with a dandy. Here Silva, the Chilean filmmaker best known in the States for the Michael Cera psychedelic quest movie Crystal Fairy & the Magic Cactus, creates …
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“Welcome to the psychedelic twenties.” This is how Rick Doblin, founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), greeted a packed crowd on the opening morning of Psychedelic Science 2023 in Denver last week, dressed in a loose white suit befitting a guru. Billed as the largest-ever …
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Peak, one of the telemedicine companies advertising psychedelic therapy via ketamine doses on TikTok, has announced they are “winding down” their controversial membership service. Less than a month after Rolling Stone reported on how “personalized psychedelic therapy programs” have been promoting ads aimed at zoomers on social media sites like …
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