Episode Transcript: #1379 - Ben Westhoff
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Hello, Ben.
Thank you for having me, Jeff.
My pleasure.
This is a subject that scares the shit out of me.
And how did you stumble upon the story of Fentanyl?
Because weren't you at one point in time, didn't you write about rap music?
Yeah, I have a book about NWA and Tupac, and I interviewed Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg,
all those people.
But I was the LA Weekly Music Editor, and I started looking into this story about why
people were always dying at raves.
So I don't know if you remember a few years back.
Every time there was a rave, they're like, one person died, two people died, more.
And they always said it was from ecstasy.
But I knew that ecstasy was really not that dangerous of a drug.
You know, MDMA, pure MDMA, very few people died from that.
So I was like, what is going on here?
And I looked into it and turned out it was all adulterated.
It wasn't real ecstasy.
It wasn't real molly.
It was adulterated with all these new drugs.