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Joe Bernstein

The Pied Piper of Psychedelic Toads

By: Kimon de Greef   |   The New Yorker   |   Mar 2022
Octavio Rettig, an underground practitioner of 5-MeO-DMT, a hallucinogenic substance derived from Sonoran Desert toads, claims that he has revived a lost Mesoamerican ritual.
Joe Bernstein

The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines

By: Kimon de Greef   |   The New Yorker   |   Feb 2023
When the country’s mining industry collapsed, a criminal economy grew in its place, with thousands of men climbing into some of the deepest shafts in the world, searching for leftover gold.