Tag: Drugs
Quaalude (“kway-lewd”) or methaqualone (“meth-uh-kway-loan”), is something most people are only familiar with from movies and the news. It’s back in the spotlight because Bill Cosby, as part of an on-going rape scandal, admitted in a deposition to date raping a woman with them. The drug is an infamous downer, a powerful one, a highly […]
2C-E or “Europa” is a synthetic psychedelic phenethylamine hallucinogen. It’s a powerful drug that’s like setting off mental fireworks, bringing a bounty of colors, sounds, sights, and thoughts that you wouldn’t have had otherwise. It’s a vacation from the vacation of the ordinary. The colorless oil is not for the faint of heart. It’s strong […]
A study by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction studied drug levels in wastewater in 50 European cities, the Guardian reports. They found that London’s sewage has the highest concentration of cocaine, at a daily average of 737 milligrams per 1,000 people in 2014. Amsterdam had the second highest concentration, and outstripped […]
A Finnish-Swedish joint study of over 900 convicted homicides has found a link between use of drugs and violent crimes like homicide. The study notes that recent massacres around the world, such as neo-Nazi Anders Brevik, and sinister Ronald McDonald cosplayer James Holmes has drawn new attention on a link between mental illness, psychotropic drugs, […]
On May 17, DEA agents raided a stash house and trap vehicle in the Bronx and found 70 kilos (approximately 155 pounds) of Mexican heroin, $2 million in cash, and a handgun. The bust is the largest carried out by DEA agents in New York City history. “This load was so large, it carried the […]
Adderall™, a socially acceptable drug with wondrous stimulant properties, can help even the most distracted of persons focus, and not surprisingly, it is one of America’s favorite substances. The American Chemical Society claims that over 25 million people “rely” on the drug and according to published reports, untold millions abuse it. This video by the […]
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, more commonly known as MDMA, is a psychoactive drug that makes dancing to house music extra fun. Patented by a German company in 1912 and rediscovered by hip chemists over fifty years later, it was popularized in the form of cooly-branded ecstasy pills by the pioneering club kids of the ‘80s and ‘90s and […]
Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or as it’s commonly called, D.A.R.E., is the world’s largest and most ineffective anti-drug program ever. It’s also the dumbest. In its effort to be relevant, the organization has a blog that the creators of Reefer Madness would be proud of, and it recently reposted an article that was satire as […]
Kelvin Smith, who the New York Post calls a “career Bronx drug criminal,” was arrested Saturday morning when he was caught trying to board a US Airways flight to somewhere in the Caribbean with 18 pounds of weed, 2.8 ounces of crack, and 3 ounces of psilocybin mushrooms in his carry-on luggage. “This just shows […]
An art bot and the random items it bought from the deep web with its weekly $100 bitcoin allowance was returned to art collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik after being taken into police custody months ago, sans its stash of 10 Twitter-branded ecstasy pills. Those were destroyed. Swiss authorities initially seized the entire exhibit from the gallery […]
