Bad Trips: How I Went from Vice Reporter to International Drug Smuggler Pastuk Slava
The memoir of a music editor at VICE who tried to become the coolest reporter the magazine had ever had -- by becoming an international drug smuggler.In 2019, Canadian music reporter Slava P., an…
Specifikacia Bad Trips: How I Went from Vice Reporter to International Drug Smuggler Pastuk Slava
The memoir of a music editor at VICE who tried to become the coolest reporter the magazine had ever had -- by becoming an international drug smuggler.In 2019, Canadian music reporter Slava P., an editor for VICE media, was sentenced to eight years in prison for recruiting friends into a scheme to smuggle cocaine from the US into Australia. Five of them were already in jail.Immediately, Slava P. was internationally infamous. Was he a victim of pressure to commit extreme acts in the sake of a good story? A product of a drug-obsessed work environment? Or a manipulator who pushed vulnerable young people into crime?Here Slava P. tells his side of the story: what exactly happened, and how the precarious, dog-eat-dog atmosphere of a media company can lead the young, the nave and the ambitious into taking crazy risks.Bad Trips is a