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Breaking Good: how to synthesize Pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) From...
Photo: Chris Howey / Shutterstock Genius scientific paper* of the day: "A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine, by O. Hai and I. B. Hakkenshit." (PDF). A...
View ArticleWalmart breaks bad: active meth lab found inside Missouri store
Apparently, corporate profits just aren't enough for some global megabusinesses these days: a Walmart store in South St. Louis County, Missouri was emptied by police when an "active methamphetamine...
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Top 11 Chemistry Moments in Breaking Bad
WARNING: Video contains spoilers. To celebrate the premiere of Breaking Bad's Fifth Season this week, my fellow trufan Miles O'Brien and I dug into the show's vaults to explore the top 10 chemistry...
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Breaking Bad street art in NYC
Walter White from Breaking Bad, immortalized in street art on Rivington Street, NYC. Photographed and shared with Boing Boing by Daniel Albanese. This wheatpaste work is credited to street artist...
View ArticleBreaking Bad Dance Remix music video (warning: S.1+2 spoilers)
[Video Link] Do not watch if you have not yet watched seasons one and two of the television show Breaking Bad. Tight, tight, tight, yeah! Created by the very talented video remixer Chris Lohr. Damn,...
View ArticleThe chemistry behind Walter White's famous meth
At Popular Mechanics, an analytical chemist uses clues from Breaking Bad to explain both the real science behind Walter White's meth formula, and the key flaw that either means the show's writers are...
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Accordion filled with meth
Police in Nogales found 4.5 pounds of meth in an accordion Monday and took an 18 year old man into custody. The drugs, said to be worth $13,000, were seized and the teenager, a Mexican citizen, was...
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Meth Nazis
Andreas Ulrich recounts how Germany's war machine became increasingly dependent on amphetamines, morphine and booze. (more…)
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Beautiful microscope photographs of drugs, legal and illegal: LSD, caffeine,...
[caption id="attachment_405524" align="alignnone" width="2000"] MDMA Crystals ∅ Cross polarisation microscope with 200x enlargement. Photo: Maurice Mikkers/Medium. [/caption] In Medium's wonderful...
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Breaking Bad fans, Jesse Pinkman's house is for sale: $1.6 million
Two houses featured on the great AMC television series "Breaking Bad" are up for sale in Albuquerque, NM. The sales pitch includes this line, seriously: "Meth lab not included." (more…)
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Methamphetamine not on In-N-Out secret menu
Fred Maldonado is suing In-N-Out for purportedly serving him a methamphetamine laced milkshake. In-N-Out denies the claims. (more…)
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Two female meth heads kept a “special needs“ boy and his sister locked in cages
[caption id="attachment_412247" align="alignnone" width="534"] Photo: WRCB via Murray Co. Sheriff's Dept.[/caption] Two women in northwest Georgia are facing child cruelty charges after police officers...
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Meth lab found underneath a Walmart parking lot
We've heard countless stories about people brewing up meth in Walmart bathrooms, but now police have found a meth lab underneath a Walmart in Amherst, New York! They discovered the underground lab...
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Meth, Hitler and the Reich: the true, untold story of the Nazis' dependence...
Novelist Norman Ohler became fascinated with the Third Reich's reliance on opiods and methamphetamines when DJ Alexander Kramer mentioned it to him in passing; he set out to write a novel, but in...
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Watch the filthiest, most hilarious NSFW meth story you'll ever hear
Jessa Reed was addicted to meth for years, and it's great she survived to tell us about her rock bottom, which involved drinking her own pee to get high. (more…)
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Meth smuggled as Aztec souvenir calendars and statues
Federal agents busted eight people for attempting to smuggle 26 pounds of methamphetamine disguised as Aztec souvenir decorative calendars and souvenir statues. The suspects apparently tried to mail...
View ArticleBooby trap in a "meth" house
See if you can guess how you would die if you walked up this completely innocuous staircase.
View ArticleTwo chemistry professors, neither named Walter White, busted for allegedly...
In Arkansas, Henderson State University chemistry professors Terry D. Bateman, 45, and Bradley A. Rowland, 40, were charged on Friday with making methamphetamine. They had been put on administrative...
View ArticleThe State of South Dakota wants you to know that it's on meth
South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi L. Noem spent $449,000 (more that $0.50 per resident of South Dakota!) on a campaign to educate state residents about the state's program to address its...
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Police seize 20 pounds of meth mailed inside of an air fryer to Kentucky...
Air fryers. Not even once. Authorities in Kentucky seized an odd gift sent through the mail to a Kentucky man’s home. Inside the package was approximately 20 pounds (9 kilograms) of methamphetamine,...
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