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August 16, 2007

Axegrinder drugs special: All in the name of research…

By Axegrinder axeblog

Independent production company Ricochet has come up with an assignment that could be too good to be true for hacks of an alternative bent.

It is looking for journalists in their 20s or early 30s willing to fill their boots with cannabis and Ecstasy for a month.

Assistant producer Hannah Lamb assures those worried about the legal ramifications that journalists will be taken to Holland “where they have a great university which will be monitoring the effects”.

But why are they particularly asking for journalists? Could it be that the traditional image of the hard-drinking hack has taken a more psychedelic turn?

Axegrinder refuses to encourage drug use, so if you want to know more, you’ll have to find out yourself.

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