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Child Poisonings From Edibles Have Surged 3,307%, New Study Finds
Most cases involved children under 3 and happened at home, with cannabis gummies accounting for the vast majority of accidental ingestions.
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‘Scromiting’ From Cannabis Left a Teen With a Life-Threatening Vitamin Deficiency
Doctors say prolonged vomiting caused severe vitamin B1 deficiency, leading to confusion, slurred speech and trouble walking.
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Pictured: a scene from VICE's new kambo documentary Kambo, the Frog Venom Making Suburbanites Puke Their Guts Out
In her first VICE documentary, Amber Rawlings travels the UK, meeting unhappy people searching for answers in Amazonian frog secretions.
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Image: Nick Dove Fully-Automated Luxury Space Capitalism—This Week on VICE: Members Only
The war between the old world and the new world rages on, behind the paywall this week.
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All photos by Mattha Busby Why Do People Keep Dying at This Week-Long Psytrance Festival?
A 45-year-old just plunged to his death at Ozora. VICE spoke to bosses, witnesses, and a man who survived a similar fall just two days earlier.
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Image: Mattha Busby Send ‘Ludes—This Week On VICE: Members Only
This week behind the paywall, a drug that hasn’t been in circulation for decades returns, and a violent new Pokémon card crime wave emerges.
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The Quiet, Curious Return of Quaaludes
Decades ago, methaqualone was hailed by the counterculture for its revolutionary potential, before being outlawed by the U.S. government and vanishing. Now, the drug’s making a comeback to our deranged present, in exclusive circles penetrated by VICE.
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Still from the new VICE documentary “XPLOSION: Inside South Africa's Underground Taxi Raves” Durban’s Taxi Ravers Are Summoning Ghosts With Bass
How the racist transport protocols of apartheid-era South Africa inadvertently inspired a generation to get pilled up in taxis.
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This Mushroom Makes People Hallucinate Tiny People, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
Researchers found the mushroom lacks known psychedelic compounds, suggesting an unknown chemical may be causing its strange effects.

