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July 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 173 Legal Highs and Lows – Part Two

After my bizarre experience with the legal “party pills” in the mid-2000s it’s fair to say I was highly sceptical about the synthetic cannabis that came on sale earlier this decade. I had a few friends who tried and said it was pretty good but I wasn’t convinced it even worked – the first time […]
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June 26, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 117 Legal Highs and Lows

When party pills first came on the market I thought I’d give them a spin. They were sort of alright but you felt like crap the next day, never actually got that high and they didn’t have a creative edge to them. I got a job with a painting outfit called Crikey Dick on an […]
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