Ketamine has come a long way from general anesthetic to club drug to therapeutic psychedelic. But in the troubling case of Elijah McClain it was used improperly by paramedics, which led to his death in 2019. The offending medic has received a five-year sentence for criminally negligent homicide.
"Hundreds of people were under the influence of psychedelics," says one attendee of the Nova Festival in Israel on October 7. Another says, "The acid helped me survive." More than 350 people were killed by Hamas during the early-morning attack.
The so-called "cocaine hippos" of South America are in the news again. Unlike Cocaine Bear, these are not coke-snorting mammals. Several were imported from Africa to Colombia by Pablo Escobar in the '80s and now as many as 70 are being sent to Mexico and India.
The controversy currently embroiling Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has detoured into the question of whether she used drugs while "partying" with friends captured in a video. Did she inhale "flour" - Finnish slang for coke?
The Colombian publication SEMANA is reporting Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died of a drug overdose on March 25. The band was in Bogota to perform at the Esteréo Picnic festival.
