Create fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas-19711111?print=true) | 18 April 1971  Weekend treat. Thanks to Longform for pointing out that this piece, one of the most influential and enjoyable magazine articles ever published, is available ungated on Rolling Stone‘s website. If you haven’t read it before, seize the moment. And if you have, read it again. Just try and stop yourself: “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.