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Austerity's Drug of Choice

Sisa Is Destroying the Lives of Athens’s Homeless People

Greece's infamous new drug, sisa, is basically meth and filler ingredients like battery acid, engine oil, shampoo, and cooking salt. The majority of its users are poor, often homeless, city dwellers reeling from the psychological and physical impacts of a country in the grip of economic collapse. Full story

How a Remote Laotian Village Became Asia's Cancun

Vang Vieng's main street is full of bars screening reruns of 'Friends' and 'Family Guy.' Bars offer whiskey-taurine cocktails served in beach buckets. It’s also easy to score opium, magic mushrooms, methamphetamines, and other substances that could get you thrown into a Laotian p… Full story

Cry-Baby of the Week

This week: The woman who hates gays Vs. the guy who hates Alanis Morissette. Full story

'Breaking Bad' May As Well Be Set in China

The more I watch the show, the more I realize that it could easily be transplanted to the People's Republic and largely be the same thing. And possibly, even better. Full story

The Walkabout Is Cambodia's Sleaziest Bar

There’s something kind of heartening in the fact that there's one thing that can make the taxi girls, the motodops, and the Venn diagram of wildly divergent expat groups overlap in the middle of a hooker bar: a garbage bag filled with money. Full story

No One Was Sober at a Monday Afternoon Outdoor Aerosmith Show

Earlier this week, quintessential roofer-rock band Aerosmith gave a free concert in Boston in front of the apartment building where the band first lived and jammed in together. Home Depots across New England must have been severely understaffed. Full story

Meth Heads Are Robbing People's Graves

Grave robbing—or tomb raiding, or pot hunting, or fucking around with archaeological sites—occupies a strange corner of our culture. Part 'Tomb Raider,' part cartoon horror punk, traditionally it's been the territory of savvy locals who've wanted to make a quick, immoral buck sel… Full story

The Strangely Uplifting Tale of the Cam-Girl with No Vagina

I was raised on the same diet of girl-on-girl coprophilia, animal torture, and 24-hour Arabic news channels that every child of generation WWW was, so the internet has to work pretty hard to shock me. But when a friend of mine linked me to this photo-set at Efukt.com, I was actua… Full story

Chapo That Yeyo

A look at the brilliant smuggle tech of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the world's top drug kingpin. Full story

Filibustin' with Willie D - Puff, Puff, Pass Drug Legalization

I can't wait until I can buy pot at Walmart. Full story