McAfee Security founder wanted for murder in Belize
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McAfee Security founder wanted for murder in Belize
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#2Bath salts: "Since then, McAfee has reportedly been spending his time researching MDPV, a stimulant that can produce similar effects to methamphetamine. It is illegal in the United States." 0.o
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#3Bath salts: "Since then, McAfee has reportedly been spending his time researching MDPV, a stimulant that can produce similar effects to methamphetamine. It is illegal in the United States." 0.o
Unfortunately, in itself, that statement means very little to me:
> a stimulant that can produce similar effects to methamphetamine
That can describe many substances, both legal and illegal: street meth, Adderall, Vyvanse, Desoxyn, MDMA - the list goes on. Even caffeine could be said to produce 'similar effects' - both are stimulants and diuretics that have comparable in vivo half-life times (depending on the means of ingestion).
> It is illegal in the United States.
Well, that doesn't mean much. Methamphetamine is illegal, except when it isn't (prescribed). And the US drug scheduling (which determines the degrees of legality) is so nonsensical that it may as well be randomly generated for all it tells us about the relative dangers and harms of a substance.
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#4Bath salts: "Since then, McAfee has reportedly been spending his time researching MDPV, a stimulant that can produce similar effects to methamphetamine. It is illegal in the United States." 0.o
Unfortunately, in itself, that statement means very little to me: > a stimulant that can produce similar effects to methamphetamine That can describe many substances, both legal and illegal: street meth, Adderall, Vyvanse, Desoxyn, MDMA - the list goes on. Even caffeine could be said to produce 'similar effects' - both are stimulants and diuretics that have comparable in vivo half-life times (depending on the means o…
Methamphetamine was given out in bucket loads to troops in the past.
Re: McAfee Security founder wanted for murder in Belize
#5Let's give credit where credit is due: Gizmodo exclusively broke this story, not just of McAfee's post-software adventures, but of his current status as a murder suspect:
Re: McAfee Security founder wanted for murder in Belize
#6Bath salts: "Since then, McAfee has reportedly been spending his time researching MDPV, a stimulant that can produce similar effects to methamphetamine. It is illegal in the United States." 0.o
Unfortunately, in itself, that statement means very little to me: > a stimulant that can produce similar effects to methamphetamine That can describe many substances, both legal and illegal: street meth, Adderall, Vyvanse, Desoxyn, MDMA - the list goes on. Even caffeine could be said to produce 'similar effects' - both are stimulants and diuretics that have comparable in vivo half-life times (depending on the means o…
That is why in the Ars article it was linked to its wikipedia page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylenedioxypyrovalerone
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#7Bath salts: "Since then, McAfee has reportedly been spending his time researching MDPV, a stimulant that can produce similar effects to methamphetamine. It is illegal in the United States." 0.o
Unfortunately, in itself, that statement means very little to me: > a stimulant that can produce similar effects to methamphetamine That can describe many substances, both legal and illegal: street meth, Adderall, Vyvanse, Desoxyn, MDMA - the list goes on. Even caffeine could be said to produce 'similar effects' - both are stimulants and diuretics that have comparable in vivo half-life times (depending on the means o…
There's not much innuendo involved here. The article pretty directly links to MDVP. Go look it up on Erowid; it's not particularly inert stuff.
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#8Highly recommend you click through to the drug forum posts (he's "stuffmonger").
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#9His software murdered my computer too.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately, in itself, that statement means very little to me: > a stimulant that can produce similar effects to methamphetamine That can describe many substances, both legal and illegal: street meth, Adderall, Vyvanse, Desoxyn, MDMA - the list goes on. Even caffeine could be said to produce 'similar effects' - both are stimulants and diuretics that have comparable in vivo half-life times (depending on the means o…
There's not much innuendo involved here. The article pretty directly links to MDVP. Go look it up on Erowid; it's not particularly inert stuff.
> The article pretty directly links to MDVP. Go look it up on Erowid
My point is that this is a rather irresponsible journalistic statement. If they want to portray MDVP as a dangerous substance, that's a pretty terrible comparison that fails to get the point across to anybody who knows a thing or two about psychoactive substances.