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Nov 18, 2024 | 
theface.com | Simon Doherty
“The pills were much stronger back in the 1990s.” That statement, or variants of it, bounce around the comments section of my TikTok every day. Among some people over a certain age, it seems to be a common opinion that their ecstasy experience was much superior to later, like-minded generations who also enjoy draining their serotonin like dish water while flailing their limbs to electronic music. “In 1989 it was £25 for a [MDMA] pill,” Leon*, a 56-year-old caterer from Lincoln, tells THE FACE.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
patreon.com | Simon Doherty
A more raw, candid, less censored, conversation than we can have on TikTok
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Simon Doherty
Music festival hits back at bands over Kyle Rittenhouse controversy: ‘This is not some weird safe space’It has been just about a week since the band Evergreen Terrace went and put the small Shell Shock II music festival in Orlando into national …
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
theface.com | Simon Doherty
TW: Discussions around rape and sexual assault. Above the entrance to KitKatClub in Berlin – next to the hulking meathead bouncer who asks, “What are you going to wear inside?” – is a sign. In German and English it reads: “GHB = House Ban”. At the entrance to Berghain there’s a similar sign: “GHB/GBL” with a big red cross through it. Even the avid club-goer, whether in the German capital, London or anywhere else, likely won’t have seen drug-specific signs about MDMA, ket or coke.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
vice.com | Simon Doherty
At the end of 2024, police in Kerkrade, the Netherlands, pulled over a driver who’d ignored a stop sign, and quickly noticed three things. One, he didn’t have a valid licence. Two, he appeared to be high. And three, in the passenger seat beside him was a massive bag of Nazi-branded ecstasy pills.The Nazi Eagle symbol was developed by Hitler’s party in the 1920s, and is also known as the Imperial Eagle or Parteiadler.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
professionaladviser.com | Simon Doherty |Quilter Cheviot
Investment Manager Simon Doherty discusses why a "Building Blocks" approach offers clients greater exposure to a wide range of investment opportunities compared to traditional MPS. Read the Q&A in the brand new MPS Watchlist, which not only includes this article, but other fantastic content from 8AM Global, Quilter, Quilter Cheviot, Tatton Investment Management and Timeline.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
theface.com | Simon Doherty
Music festivals are some of the hardest places to get your drugs into, outside of prisons. Unlike in airports – where security is mainly looking for bombs, bundles of cash, and huge amounts of mind-altering substances – festival security is actively looking for people with small, personal amounts of drugs. And given the fact that searching everyone properly would take longer than the festival itself, they single people out – often using sniffer dogs to justify the selection.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
investmentweek.co.uk | Simon Doherty |Quilter Cheviot
Investment Manager Simon Doherty discusses why a "Building Blocks" approach offers clients greater exposure to a wide range of investment opportunities compared to traditional MPS. Read the Q&A in the brand new MPS Watchlist, which not only includes this article, but other fantastic content from 8AM Global, Quilter, Quilter Cheviot, Tatton Investment Management and Timeline.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
theface.com | Simon Doherty
If you’ve ever been on the wrong side of a hopeless TikTok rabbit hole, you might have seen the frantic videos by UKIP campaigner-turned-TikToker-and-drum-and-bass-promoter Tom Birchy. From “Knock Out Labs”, his outpost in the town of Ao Nang in Thailand, the 25-year-old uses his massive social media reach (he posts 20 – 30 TikTok videos a day and has 406k followers on the app) to promote his weed shop, his festival and, well, himself. Mainly himself.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
theface.com | Simon Doherty
Unfun fact: drug poisoning deaths in England and Wales are currently at the highest levels since records began in 1993. Despite this, it seems like nobody’s teaching anyone what to do in a drug-related emergency – or what overdosing even looks like anyway. The British education system teaches us many things – Pythagoras theorem, how many wives Henry VIII had, how to throw a javelin – but they tend to leave out important practical shit like this.
