Oregon speed showing up in wastewater tests
Statistics detailing the amount of drug users in a given community have never been very accurate, especially when it comes to a substance like methamphetamine – tweeking and confession do not go hand in hand. But the news is out in Oregon, where researchers from three universities including Oregon State have joined the latest craze: testing sewage from treatment plants as window into what people have ingested.
Faces of Meth
We all know the associations that come with meth; low rent trailer trash, backwoods personalities with missing teeth that look like they haven’t slept in a decade and more importantly, people who don’t have the money to buy coke.
Which is why it’s strange when celebrities get caught with their hand in the meth jar, it flips the script on everything we had previously thought of meth. Why are you snorting/smoking one of the most vile substances known to man when you could be getting high off fishscale grade Tony Montana?
Complex Magazine has put together a list of the top 10 celebutards caught with meth and the whole rainbow of humanity seems to be represented. Christian gay pastors, Nascar racing champions, childhood stars, C list actors with memorable roles, and female music divas.
[Complex]
So This Is What a Shot-Up Bentley Looks Like
On a downtown stretch of the 101 Freeway, a storm of bullets riddled a $100,000 Bentley, showering the lanes with shell casings and glass, and leaving the driver mortally wounded. ... A search warrant affidavit filed by a Los Angeles Police Department detective says investigators learned that the dead man, 25-year-old Jose Luis Macias, might have been selling drugs here for the notorious Arellano Felix cartel. ... In recent years, the death and imprisonment of key leaders have weakened the Arellano Felix cartel, but it remains a fierce combatant for drug smuggling routes from Tijuana into Southern California and across the United States law enforcement officials say. ... the cartel brings cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine into the state and acts as a wholesaler for drug-dealing street gangs.
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GTA IV's Meth Recipe Could Lead to Death by Explosion
There’s a lot of things in Grand Theft Auto that you ought not to do in real life. Actually, you shouldn’t do anything from that game in real life, but now you can chalk up “cook crystal meth” to that laundry list.
If you didn’t know or really care, the UK is going through a kerfuffle over who gets control of video games ratings. The real news is that the prior ratings board discovered a recipe to synthesize crystal meth in Grand Theft Auto IV. After some damned good fact checking, the board found the recipe inaccurate and decided to let it remain.
I don’t know if that’s hardly any more responsible than putting in an actual meth recipe. It’s high-risk as it is to singe your ass hairs by cooking this shit up, one wrong amount and KABLAMMO! Giving out totally erroneous tips is well enough to guarantee a good fragging. All I know is I think I tasted egg and cinnamon.
[Joystiq]
Hells Angels, Shotguns, Pipebombs, and a Whole Lotta Meth
Police in Oklahoma said October 6, that they have the Modesto, CA. man suspected of killing San Francisco Hells Angels leader Mark “Papa” Guardado. The cops are fingering thirty-seven year-old freelance electrician and Modesto father of two Christopher Ablett, part of East L.A.-based biker gang The Mongols.
“The Mongols and the Hells Angels have long feuded. The bloodiest run-in between the two groups happened in April 2002, when a fight involving dozens of members in a Laughlin, Nev., casino resulted in the deaths of three bikers and caused 13 injuries.”The Monday arrest follows the Sepetember pipe-bombing of a San Jose Mongols outpost, which in turn followed a 1,000 biker-strong funeral for Guardado, gunned down in The Mission Sept. 2 after a “wrestling match” with alleged attacker Ablett.
This is pretty much some of the best news of all time. Along with those Somalian pirates hijacking a freighter full of tanks, headlines don’t really get much better than this. Many thought the Hells Angels were extinct, some sad 1970s relic overshadowed by the domestication of motorcycling everywhere. Bikes are the new mid-life crisis gift. Yet, here we have chain-whipping, meth-slinging, gang-raping, casino-brawling bikers … in 2008!
Link to source: SF Chronicle
