Best of 2012 on Vice

Bath Salts in the Wound

How a Plague of Ladybug Attractant Ravaged Roanoke, Virginia

Few places were as primed for the plague of bath salts as the Southeast neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia. Before long, buyers swarmed the tobacco stores that carried it. Salt users would show up at a retailer five or six times a day. The lines were longer than a food bank or a Wal-Mart. Full story

The VICE Guide to Adulthood

We are so sick of you full-grown babies running around aimlessly—with your shoes untied and overdraft-fee receipts falling out of your pockets and grease stains on your cut-offs and employment-repellant skillsets and inability to party and go to work the next morning—that we’ve g… Full story

The Westminster Dog Show... On Acid!

We took some drugs and hung out with a bunch of bitches at Madison Square Garden. Full story

An Etiquette Guide for Straight People in Gay Bars

We love having straight people hang out with us, we really do, but I'm going to break down the rules for the breeders who forget how to behave when there is a rainbow flag on the wall. For our purposes we'll be talking about gay male bars, since lesbian bars, like pandas in the w… Full story

Interviews with People Who Just Smoked DMT

Ever since 'Enter the Void and DMT: The Spirit Molecule' showed up on Netflix Instant, kids have been going gaga over Dimethyltryptamine. Earlier this year, writer John Barclay came across some, shared it with his pals, and talked to them about their trips as they floated back do… Full story

The Loneliest Cowboy in the World

Plumbing the Isolated Depths of Chilean Patagonia

Faustino Barrientos has spent most of his 81 years in isolation. He works as a gaucho—the horse-riding shepherds of the harsh southern swath known as Patagonia. Full story

A Few Pieces of Toilet Paper

For a few years now, Maurizio Cattelan (who just exhibited a retrospective at the Guggenheim that marked his “retirement” from the art world) and world-class photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari have been putting out a biannual magazine called Toilet Paper. Full story

Hamilton's Pharmacopeia

Hamilton and the Philosopher's Stone

In the bucolic pastures of Hazerswoude-Dorp, Holland, nestled in verdant fields of ruminating Holsteins, lazy windmills, and pert tulips, lies a quaint Dutch farm that functions as the world's largest psilocybin-containing-truffle factory. Full story