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The Hollywood Reporter's Bad Ketamine Trip Article
from A Christmas K-Hole | The Tim Dillon Show #374 · #374
11 min
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Tim reads and mocks a Hollywood Reporter article about a writer's disastrous ketamine clinic experience, mocking the purple prose and comparing the unregulated 'ketamine waitress' industry to how Michael Jackson was killed by enablers.
- Hollywood Reporter article: writer goes to ketamine therapy clinic and has a bad trip.
- Tim on ketamine users he knows: not one of them is in a good mental place.
- Article claims ketamine's disassociative effect helps users escape ego-driven thinking.
- People in LA do ketamine because they think it'll make them more famous and successful.
- Writer describes the ketamine clinic setup: dim room, faux leather recliner, young technician with unclear credentials.
- Writer has a bad trip, enters a k-hole: confused about reality, paranoid, feeling unconscious in a void.
- Tim: ketamine is just a drug, like heroin in a smoothie—putting heroin in something doesn't change what it is.
- The article's writing is terrible: clichéd bad-trip descriptions that sound copied from drug experience forums.
- Tim questions whether ketamine therapy actually helps anyone or if clinics just push repeat appointments.
- No doctor's note required to get ketamine therapy—anyone can walk in and get injected.
- Tim compares backlash to his controversial take that marijuana is for teenagers, not people in their 30s.
- The real problem isn't ketamine itself but the application: anyone can walk in and do as much as they want with no oversight.