drugs
U.S. Navy Releases Bizarre PSA Letting You Know Bath Salts Will Lead to Nothing But Violence, Demons, and Dubstep
Taylor Berman · 01/03/13 12:45AMThe U.S. Navy has had some recent trouble with bath salt usage among its sailors, so they did what any forward thinking branch of the military would do: They released a bizarre PSA about the drug. According to the video, at least one of the following will occur if you ingest bath salts: 1) you'll vomit, 2) you'll punch your girlfriend while bowling, and 3) your friends will transform into demons before your eyes. Also: you'll only be able to hear dubstep.
Katt Williams Should Stop Doing the Following Things Immediately
MTanzer · 12/29/12 02:28PMMany Christmases Ruined Because Gift Card Money Doesn't Cover Drugs
Camille Dodero · 12/26/12 06:45PMWoman Busted for Smuggling Coke Hidden Inside Toblerone Bars, Which Is Like Smuggling Pennies Inside a Diamond
Caity Weaver · 12/12/12 02:30PMColorado's New Dilemma: How High Is Too High to Drive?
Taylor Berman · 12/11/12 10:08PMEarlier today, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed an executive order adding Amendment 64 to the state's constitution. In case you're not up to date on your Colorado state amendments, this means recreational use of marijuana is now legal in Colorado. Great news. But decriminalized weed raises several interesting legal challenges, the most challenging of which is: How high is too high to drive?
The Billion-Dollar Barrel of LSD, and Other Insanities of the U.S. Army's Cold War Drug Experiments
Hamilton Nolan · 12/10/12 11:05AMDuring the Cold War, the U.S. Army pursued a research program that used soldiers as lab rats to test the effects of various chemical agents—ranging "from tear gas and LSD to highly lethal nerve agents, like VX." As a huge class action suit against the government by those who were experimented upon nears its trial date, the New Yorker has dropped a huge piece full of details on just how much crazy shit our military was doing in a single secret facility in Maryland.
Two University of Colorado Boulder Students Arrested for Giving Pot Brownies to Class, Professor
Taylor Berman · 12/09/12 08:24PMOn Friday, two University of Colorado Boulder students brought brownies to one of their classes as part of something called "Bring Food Friday." They shared the snacks with their fellow classmates and their professor. Normal enough, right? Well, it turns out the brownies were laced with pot and everyone who ate them freaked out, necessitating multiple trips to the hospital.
Popped a Molly and Confused About Sweating? Trinidad James, Explained
MTanzer · 12/09/12 03:27PMIn 2012, it's very possible for a rapper to get signed to a major label after the success of just one viral hit song — for evidence of that, one needs only to look at artists like Azealia Banks or Kreayshawn. But a new rapper, Trinidad James, has burst on to the scene in the last few weeks armed with a single that has some catchy lines about "molly" and "sweating."
Someone in Los Angeles is Trouble, and It's Not the Dude Who Found $175,000 Worth of Weed in His Backyard
Jordan Sargent · 12/06/12 11:40PMSomeone in L.A. is having a really shitty day, even though he may not know it yet. That's because a Silver Lake resident named Mack Reed (not to be confused with Gawker's Max Read, who would never find himself in the vicinity of marijuana) just so happened to stumble upon $175,000 worth of weed buried in his backyard, as chronicled on his Tumblr today. Reed promptly called the LAPD ("fucking narc, dude," says someone looking up from a bong rip), which means that there is a person in the L.A. drug game in a lot of trouble right now.
Tricking a Girl into Wearing Deodorant, Leading Friends Out of the Valley of the Dolls, and Other Questionable Advice
Caity Weaver · 12/06/12 02:20PMDon't Do Meth
Max Read · 12/04/12 01:58PMAbove, 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:
Bret Easton Ellis Accidentally Tried to Score Some Coke on Twitter
MTanzer · 12/02/12 11:11AMAll the Mistakes Four Ohio College Kids Made Trying to Set Up Their Campus Ecstasy Lab
Hamilton Nolan · 11/27/12 10:19AMFour Ohio college students were indicted earlier this month on a multitude of drug charges, after they were caught last May trying to steal chemicals from a school chemistry lab in order to cook up some ecstasy in "an empty dorm room." An all too typical tale. For purposes of instruction—and to ensure that future college ecstasy labs are more professionally run—allow us to examine what mistakes they made in their budding criminal enterprise, all detailed exhaustively in this Plain-Dealer story:
Cops Nab $5 Million Worth of Cocaine from Times Square Hotel
Taylor Berman · 11/27/12 12:07AMIt's tough to beat the New York Post's lede - "There's no business like snow business" - so I'll let it stand. In what authorities are describing as a "dramatic drug gang takedown," New York State police seized over 100 pounds of cocaine – worth an estimated $5 million – from the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Times Square last month.
Could the Feds Please Fix Their Idiotic Drug Policy?
Drew Magary · 11/07/12 03:00PM'Tripping' on 'LSD' Is Making a 'Comeback,' According to Drug Newsletter The Wall Street Journal
Hamilton Nolan · 11/02/12 10:40AMMost of You Won't Die in this Hurricane So Why Aren't You Drunk Yet?
A.J. Daulerio · 10/29/12 04:15PMThere are very few days 50 million people get permission by their employers and city officials to "stay home and be safe" which some people interpret as an open bar until Hurricane Sandy's temper tantrum ends. So please inform us in the discussion system what state of inebriation you're planning to be in once those gale-force winds start uprooting trees and stray cats across the city in the next few hours. If you plan on adding any illegal substances to your Emergency Stay-At-Home Pack please feel free to suggest your own concoctions since some Gawker editors are mulling how to best enjoy the Frankenstorm show but still maintain enough capacitation to evacuate in a makeshift canoe.
Massive Dubstep Concert Cancelled Because Teenagers Don't Know How To Drink or Take Drugs
Jordan Sargent · 10/28/12 01:49PM"Dubstep" (or EDM) is generally terrible music beloved by America's teenagers. These children go see their favorite DJs in arenas or at festivals, where they chug liquor out of water bottles and/or take various forms of MDMA and whatever else gross adult drug dealers sell them. The problem is that teenagers don't understand how to take drugs without nearly killing themselves, which means that things like this happen at events like Haunted Coliseum at the Nassau Coliseum.
Ruth Is Heartless, But the World Breaks Everyone
Ruth Fowler · 10/27/12 12:00PMI gravitated to the fucked up writers. Hunter S. Thompson, Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Raymond Chandler, Tennessee Williams, Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Charles Bukowski, William Faulkner. There weren't many women in my list. Dorothy Parker, and that was about it. Somehow, hand in hand with booze and drugs, the terrible dance that substances led me on became one that I must perfect to be a writer. It was a required necessity, an essential rite of passage, and my writing heroes' words were the proof. I drank, gurned, snorted, swallowed and hallucinated like they did. That waltz into the dark was absolutely crucial for me in order to write like them—even if the familiar, haunting beautiful chimes of The Blue Danube led me instead to the depths of degradation, I could still write about it.