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Matt Bowden
Matt "Starboy" Bowden is a rock musician and activist from New Zealand. , Bowden promoted party pills as safer substitutes for methamphetamine addicts, and lobbied for regulated, legal sale of psychoactive substances. He performs musically as Starboy.
Matt Bowden was involved in the distribution and popularization of party pills. After the death of a family member from ecstasy overdose Bowden worked to develop and promote safer alternatives to methamphetamine.
His musical single Flying, released 29 October 2012, debuted at number five in the NZ Single charts and number 29 in the New Zealand Top 40 Singles charts.
Bowden was born 10 June 1971 in Auckland. His father was an internet pioneer and his mother was a piano teacher. He studied guitar under Nigel Gavin and played in Gavin's acoustic avant garde jazz ensemble "Gitbox Rebellion." At 18, after studying music at Auckland University, Bowden joined Auckland metal band "The Highwaymen" on lead guitar. Together the band recorded a first album "Torrent of Darkness. After a break-up Bowden played eclectic guitar solos on drummer Gavin Stokes' album Continuum, and worked as a guitar teacher for 7 years.
Following a friend's death, Bowden sought to identify and distribute safer alternatives to illicit substances and identified benzylpiperazine, which was originally developed as a potential antidepressant by Burroughs Wellcome but was rejected after it was found to have similar effects to amphetamines, though less potent. Products were developed for amphetamine addicts and initially targeted toward them as a substitute therapy.
Following increased restrictions on the sale and marketing of party pills, Bowden was involved in the establishment of STANZ (Social Tonic Association of New Zealand) and the development of a "Code of Practice" to help producers of party pills comply with the new regulations.
Bowden worked to develop products that would pass the tests required by the Psychoactive Substances Bill.
One of the most high-profile party pills products that the operation Bowden worked under developed was EASE. Stargate International began 'clinical trials' to distribute EASE, later identified as methylone, after initially receiving authorization from the New Zealand Ministry of Health to import and sell the product.
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Matt Bowden
Matt "Starboy" Bowden is a rock musician and activist from New Zealand. , Bowden promoted party pills as safer substitutes for methamphetamine addicts, and lobbied for regulated, legal sale of psychoactive substances. He performs musically as Starboy.
Matt Bowden was involved in the distribution and popularization of party pills. After the death of a family member from ecstasy overdose Bowden worked to develop and promote safer alternatives to methamphetamine.
His musical single Flying, released 29 October 2012, debuted at number five in the NZ Single charts and number 29 in the New Zealand Top 40 Singles charts.
Bowden was born 10 June 1971 in Auckland. His father was an internet pioneer and his mother was a piano teacher. He studied guitar under Nigel Gavin and played in Gavin's acoustic avant garde jazz ensemble "Gitbox Rebellion." At 18, after studying music at Auckland University, Bowden joined Auckland metal band "The Highwaymen" on lead guitar. Together the band recorded a first album "Torrent of Darkness. After a break-up Bowden played eclectic guitar solos on drummer Gavin Stokes' album Continuum, and worked as a guitar teacher for 7 years.
Following a friend's death, Bowden sought to identify and distribute safer alternatives to illicit substances and identified benzylpiperazine, which was originally developed as a potential antidepressant by Burroughs Wellcome but was rejected after it was found to have similar effects to amphetamines, though less potent. Products were developed for amphetamine addicts and initially targeted toward them as a substitute therapy.
Following increased restrictions on the sale and marketing of party pills, Bowden was involved in the establishment of STANZ (Social Tonic Association of New Zealand) and the development of a "Code of Practice" to help producers of party pills comply with the new regulations.
Bowden worked to develop products that would pass the tests required by the Psychoactive Substances Bill.
One of the most high-profile party pills products that the operation Bowden worked under developed was EASE. Stargate International began 'clinical trials' to distribute EASE, later identified as methylone, after initially receiving authorization from the New Zealand Ministry of Health to import and sell the product.