meth

Breaking Bad-Inspired Drug Dealers Now Dyeing Meth Blue

Taylor Berman · 01/14/14 04:28PM

Meth fans in the Southwest: Do not be misled. Despite what your tweaked brain may be telling you, the blue meth you're buying was not actually made by Heisenberg or Jesse Pinkman. In fact, it's likely more dangerous than regular meth.

Gabrielle Bluestone · 11/16/13 02:12PM

A California man trying to walk over the Mexican border with two-and-a-half pounds of meth taped to his body got busted early this morning after a Customs officer noticed he was "too friendly," and searched him.

Why Everything You Think You Know About Crack Addiction Is Wrong

Cord Jefferson · 09/17/13 04:41PM

One of the reasons America's idiotic war on drugs has existed as a punitive project rather than a therapeutic one is because it's easier to write off drug addicts as losers with no self-control instead of damaged people deserving of sympathy. The nation is a rat race for money, and the fewer people competing for that money the better, so who cares if some sad guy addicted to crack gets thrown in jail for years on end? More for me.

Man Sentenced For Crashing Car While High and Pantsless

Lacey Donohue · 09/15/13 08:19PM

Jonathan Harty, 31, of Lake Steven, Washington was sentenced Friday to 29 months in prison after an April 20 accident that occurred while driving his two young daughters. High on meth, and driving over 100 mph down the highway, Harty eventually crashed into three cars. When officers arrived on the scene, they found Harty wearing prosthetic breasts, a woman’s shirt, and no pants. They also found a full bottle of urine and a pair of ladies panties by his feet. He reportedly told police that he was en route to The Dollar Store to buy toys for his daughters.

Lost Ghost Hunters Turn Out to Be Lost Meth Makers

Taylor Berman · 08/08/13 08:16PM

If you get lost in the woods while making meth in the the middle of the night, it's probably not the best idea to call the police for help. And if you do call the cops, you probably shouldn't tell them that you, along with your two friends, were out hunting for ghosts. Alas, this is just what a man in North Carolina decided to do earlier this week, a decision that landed him and his two meth-making/ghost-hunting partners in jail.

Just Like Walter White: All the Breaking Bad Copycats

Maggie Lange · 07/05/13 10:04AM

Breaking Bad begins when a high school chemistry teacher finds out that he has a fatal form of cancer and decides to manufacture and sell high-grade meth in order to provide for his family after he passes away. It's about mortality, power, violence, and the insidious methamphetamine market. As it happens, all of these themes are actual real-life themes in actual real-life America.

Don't Do Meth

Max Read · 12/04/12 01:58PM

Above, left, Ohio woman Melissa Wolf in July of last year; above, right, Wolf after being arrested yesterday. (Acting on a tip, police found "several propane tanks, some containing anhydrous ammonia, chemicals to manufacture meth and a small amount of marijuana" at her home.) Should you do meth? No, you should not do meth. Wolf's mugshot, in full:

Schrödinger's Meth Lab Found in Montana

Mallory Ortberg · 10/13/12 04:25PM

Call it the meth lab that wasn't there: during a recent narcotics raid in Billings, Montana, a member of a police SWAT team dropped a flash grenade at the bedside of a sleeping 12-year-old girl, sending her to the hospital with second-degree burns and knocking out part of her bedroom wall.