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Rich People on Drugs—This Week On VICE: Members Only

I’m not sure there’s any amount of psychedelic therapy that would fix Drake.

By Adam Christopher Smith

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Tech bros ruin everything: not content with destroying democracy, intimate relationships, art, and our very sense of self, they’ve now come for hallucinogenic drugs. It used to be that head shop clerks and psytrance drifters had something of a cultural monopoly on ‘shrooms and DMT. Now, Silicon Valley CEOs are taking heroic quantities of psilocybin in a bid to flatten the hierarchies of our collective consciousness.

In March, venture capitalist longevity influencer Bryan Johnson vaporized his way into the spirit realm to find out what the machine elves and other psychedelic entities had to say about his ceaseless quest to live forever.

https://t.co/tQOt8ZRKUX— Bryan Johnson (@bryan_johnson) March 22, 2026

https://t.co/tQOt8ZRKUX

For the optimization generation, this live-streamed experiment might as well have been the Grateful........

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