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This entry was posted on August 26, 2013, in NME. Bookmark the permalink.

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Kevin EG Perry is a writer for The Independent.

His work has also appeared in NME, Vice, The Guardian, British GQ, Lonely Planet Traveller and numerous other publications.

He was shortlisted for The Guardian’s International Development Journalism Award in 2009.

He can be contacted at kevinegperry[at]gmail.com

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My dad told me the other day he finds my articles by scrolling through @the.independent app until he spots a headline about drugs. Here's another for the collection: I spoke to @mrjonhopkins about his journey to the @tayos_org caves in Ecuador and the experiences with DMT and ketamine which inspired and shaped his remarkable new album Music for Psychedelic Therapy.

On Friday 19 March 1971, the journalist Hunter Thompson and the lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta were sitting in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel – “in the patio section, of course” – drinking singapore slings and plotting the high-speed desert trip that would inspire Thompson’s most celebrated work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Fifty years and seven months later, I’m sitting on that same patio with the filmmaker Phillip Rodriguez, who made an incisive documentary about Acosta’s wild life and times, The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo. Reading Thompson as a teenager made me want to write for a living, so my plan had been to mark the 50th anniversary of Fear and Loathing first appearing in Rolling Stone by having a few drinks and toasting the memory of these two icons of cultural rebellion. Rodriguez has other ideas. “We have to rethink a lot of our gods,” he tells me, a smile breaking through his short-cropped snowy beard but his eyes deadly serious. “We become conservative if we’re still trying to preserve the mythologies of our youth.” I almost spit out my singapore sling. // My story 'Was Hunter Thompson a Bad Art Friend?' in today's @the.independent

I spoke to two of the cancer patients who were among the small trial group in Canada last year given legal permission to try psilocybin. It changed both of their lives. "I've experienced states of consciousness that have nothing to do with this life..." one told me. A story very relevant to my interests, in today's @the.independent

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