Bad Trips

<b>The true story of a music editor at VICE who tried to become the coolest reporter the company had ever had ¿ by becoming an international drug smuggler.</b><br/><br/> In 2019, music reporter Slava P, an editor for VICE media, was sentenced to nine years in prison for recruiting friends into a scheme to smuggle cocaine from the U.S. 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 for the sake of a good story? A product of a drug-obsessed work environment? Or a manipulator who pushed vulnerable young people into crime?<br/><br/>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 naive, and the ambitious into taking crazy risks.<br/><br/><i>Bad Trips</i> is a story about drugs, hip-hop, influencers, and glamour, set against the backdrop of one of the world¿s most influential news a