The great BZP experiment: how New Zealand lost its head to party pills

illustration: six red pills on a tongue, in a lightly drooling mouth

From 2000 to 2007, the party drug BZP was legal to buy and available from your local dairy. What happened? ‘This is what movies say drugs are like,” says Jim*, remembering how he felt when he took six party pills in one night. He was a musician, student, and regular drug taker – he’d munted … Read more