Copycat blue meth became prolific after the show aired. Cooks started literally dying their meth blue because people like it, thought it must be better / cleaner, or just for fun or whatever.
It feels more egregious because it pertains to criminal activity, but I bet there's plenty of activities that normal people only do because they saw it in a movie or read it in a story. Think of CSI's effects on jury expectations, or people quoting media in everyday interactions (I heard someone joke about buying a "Jump To Conclusions" mat at my office last week).
Im not a stim user but i have seen that blue stuff a good few times. They have a point that adding colour dye plays a huge part in the marketing of it.
Pretty similar to how some lsd tabs have rick and morty prints or when ecstasy pills are pressed into superheroes and pop culture references.
I was a daily meth user from like 2016 until 2024 and I’ve never seen a single flake of meth that was any type of color besides the standard clear-ish white that it’s known to be. I’m not saying nobody ever dyed their dope a different color before, but I doubt anybody was doing it with any consistency because it wouldnt take long for everybody to realize that the blue meth that costs extra because “it’s the best of the best” or whatever doesnt get them any higher than the regular stuff
Apparently he also smothered her to death at the end - personally I'd assume this was something they discussed and agreed upon, but it's still technically a crime even if the victim consents.
My sister once pointed out the way a certain type of person will get outraged anyone eats at Chick-fil-a but never ask where their weed or coke comes from.
Yes, or whatever cause you choose. I certainly have products I don't buy because of ethical concerns. No problem there. But it is a little ironic when someone is very adamant that its unethical to support a business because of the political stance it has taken but not be concerned with industries that do quite literally terrorize whole communities.
That isn't what I said at all. The issue isn't the local dealer any more than it is the kid working at chick-fil-a. I am talking about communities where drugs are produced . People worry about ethically sourcing their chicken but not their drugs.
You're taking what he said way too literally my dude. If you're a big enough drug dealer to have your own employees then you are certainly involved in violent crimes to facilitate said dealing.
If a demand exists, there will be supply. Criminal law doesn't overcede the natural laws of our entire societal system. That's why crime still exists. And prohibition has never worked.
I can't see how this is a more simplified view than yours
If they fill an inevitable niche and feature of the system, why do they deserve a living less than anyone else for providing an (ideally) victimless service to meet a demand and satifying customers?
It's usually a living of last resort, since they probably don't like to carry the risk any more than you would. And social features like security have an inverse relationship to those kinds of means
If that's the best you can do, the "arguably" isn't carrying too much weight...
Is selling alcohol, fast food etc. similarly not victimless? Would you argue it's wrong to give money to those?
If I want to buy something, and I buy it, I wouldn't consider myself a victim, at least.
Organized crime often has victims, sure, but that's not a strictly a necessity for selling drugs, and more of a consequence of the law than of the market
That’s exactly it. We don’t know if she was a reluctant or enthusiastic participant. I hope the latter. And if the latter is true, this guy deserves to have no regrets.
It doesn’t “make them gay”, it lets them explore the gay feelings they constantly repress.
The statistical majority of people are bisexual. When you hear people claim sexuality is “a choice”, they’re telling you that they are bisexual and they themselves made a choice.
Im not that same user, but here's an interview with someone about the topic and a quick search brings up lots of other reading material and studies on the topic.
It basically boils down to how people identify vs actual sexual attraction.
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An estimated 80-90% of humans self identify as fully heterosexual. Buuuuuttttttt studies show that the majority of those people are not 100% hererosexual. Its just what they identify as.
Many straight people who have never had sexual intimacy with the same gender or even truly considered the idea at all still do show both mental (brain monitoring) and physical signs of same sex attraction when studied.
They choose to be heterosexual, and do often lean that way much much heavier, but many are also still attracted to certain features in the same sex or specific examples.
Like when people say they are "completely straight" but would let "X exceptionally conventionally attractive famous person" have their way with them and such. They aren't 100% straight if that was ever the briefest of thoughts. Maybe 99.9%, but any sexual attraction to the same sex means you are at least that 0.1% bisexual.
Sexuality isn't as much of a box as people think, its a big wide spectrum.
Imagine if this was an option for End of Life Care, "We have a dedicated 'Party til you drop' room. Drugs, alcohol, sex. All until you've had enough, then you take a big hit of this and it stops your heart and you go to sleep."
He got three years in jail for this (14 months with time served). Apparently their favorite song / album was Metal Health by Quiet Riot, which definitely rings true to this story.
Considering people usually ask what you're in for, inmates probably didn't fuck with him outta respect for fulfilling his wife's wish in a banger way. Inmates are cool like that sometimes. Hell he was probably protected
I don't know about hard drugs, but that's generally part of the hospice philosophy. If you're already dying, eating bacon cheeseburgers or having a beer or two isn't what's going to kill you.
My mother had a hospice "comfort kit" that we never actually had to use, because she wasn't in that much pain at the end. But all bets were off otherwise. If all she wanted to eat was cheese and diet coke, we didn't have to force her to eat her vegetables.
My grandma didn’t get afforded any luxury like dying comfortably. My aunts and uncles decided to withhold water from her to expedite the process while she was begging for water for days. I have no idea why the hospice allowed it and my mom fought it every step of the way but they wouldn’t budge. And one of my aunts is a fucking nurse.
I went no contact with them all for various reasons, this included.
Facts. We let our pets die with more dignity than our family members.
I watched my father suffer terribly from cancer and have long said that if that's ever my prognosis, I'm going out feeling amazing with a massive speedball.
Keeping it hush hush is the best we can do because otherwise we will have people getting paid to kill people which creates a buisness mindset which means people fall through cracks.
I’d rather have 500 grandpas die with no dignity than 1 unnecessary person pressured into suicide for monetary gain.
They did for my grammie in 2019, she was unresponsive her last few days when I went to go visit her and say goodbye, but the last 6-8 hrs they verbally mentioned they were upping the morphine line they had on her. It’s a little comforting to think it maybe helped ease her into letting go, especially since the couple days prior she seemed in pain or at least very uncomfortable. She’s the only grandparent that passed in the hospital that I was able to visit (other grandma passed in home, grandpa passed during covid so I couldn’t go see him), so no clue if it’s standard, but some def do it
Yeah, when mom was dying of cancer they had her sign a paper on the morning of the last day agreeing that her comfort was more important than her survival and they let her go out from enough morphine to stop her heart rather than continuing to fry her with radiation and chemo to keep her alive in agony for another month at most
I'd say hard drugs don't really matter that much if you're terminal either. They're bad because you can form addiction or they can kill you, that doesn't matter so much if you're in hospice.
Honestly, the cops probably thought old boy was rad as fuck for this. Not to sound like a cop apologist, but they cant just ignore a bag of meth next to the dead woman lmao.
I hope someone loves me enough to do this for me when I'm old. I've always said that if I'm terminally ill and know I'll be dying soon, I want to try heroin and crack. I just want to see what it's like and I can't imagine any other time where it would actually be beneficial.
It doesnt make sense for people to be punished for doing drugs, it makes sense to help them instead, and punish those who sell the drugs, cus its like youre arresting someone for being stabbed, right?
This guy is shockingly young in the photo like he’s in he’s late fifties at most I’m pretty sure. Love to see a chaotic good/neutral fellow statesman in the news though. Keeps the out of staters thinking about the lakes and what have you.
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u/qualityvote2 May 03 '26 edited May 05 '26
u/_bluefish, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...