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COCAINE 
Don’t do coke. Why not? This drug lasts three minutes, during which you will urgently have to shit, and the comedown lasts 24 hours. Coke is also bad for your heart, in a way that (glorious) amphetamine is not. I could explain exactly why cocaine is bad for your heart but it’s slightly complicated, involving the blockade of sodium ion channels, so just take my word for it. Also, if your enjoyment of coke is somehow predicated on the frighteningly dated idea that it’s glamorous, I advise you to rethink this. Coke is cheap, therefore it cannot be glamorous. Also, coke makes people fiendish. It looks undignified when you fiend for coke like a cartoon drug addict. If you want to impress people with an expensive and exotic drug, start bringing xenon gas to parties, or just snort Ritalin like an adult. I’ll leave it at that. 

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Hamilton goes to meet a new bokor deep in the rice fields of Artibonite. To prove his strength, Hamilton takes a large dose of zombie powder and is rewarded with a peak inside a zombie’s shed.

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While waiting to consult another Bokor, Hamilton recruits Haitian guides to help him fetch the ingredients to create a zombie of his own.

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Hamilton is granted a meeting with the leader of the Bizangos, a Haitian secret society and beholder of the formula for zombification. Negotiations are made and a local Bokor agrees to create a nzambi—for a price.

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Hamilton arrives in Port-Au-Prince and checks in to the Adams Family mansion. There he meets his guide Alex, a man who survived fourteen bullets to the face. Together they attend a Vodou ceremony and watch a pig become an ambassador to the gods.

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Hamilton goes to speak with Wade Davis, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow, world renowned ethnobotanist and (don’t call him a) Zombieologist.

After being briefed on the history of the Haitian Zombie, Hamilton takes off for Port-Au-Prince on a quest for the secret poison.

These days, since we’ve all got Google for brains, it’s easy to think that every piece of information you’ll ever need is never more than a few keystrokes away. Even some journalists try to swear off libraries and meaningful human contact for as long as they can hold out. Eventually, though, everyone stumbles on a question that can only be answered by asking around. A question like, “hey, did the weedman just rip me off?!”

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Hamilton Morris was sent to Iceland to cover fashion week, but instead used the trip to scour the country for psychoactive mushrooms. While there he picked up a half-ounce of piney Icelandic weed, partook in some fisherman’s snuff, and ate a bunch of liberty caps picked from a graveyard by some dude named Geri. Read more

Got any terminally ill cancer patients moping around the house? Shrooms should help, according to a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry this month.

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