Features & Longread Crispin Blunt’s poppers speech: a brave acknowledgment of awkward truths Crispin Blunt, the Conservative MP for Reigate, Surrey, offered the British media a late Christmas present when he admitted to being a user of the drug amyl nitrite, more commonly known as “poppers”, during a House of Commons debate on the Psychoactive Substances Bill, which would see them banned. By Sharif Mowlabocus • 3 min read