CRACK
We Spoke to a Former Crack Addict About Rob Ford
"Usually people don’t move right to crack cocaine. People like the mayor don’t decide to have a glass of wine with dinner and then go buy a bag of crack. It doesn’t usually go that way. You aren’t just trying it with your friends out of nowhere when...
My Strange Weekend at a Bicycle Race with Lance Armstrong and a Crack Addict
I had no idea a huge bicycle race was set to happen in the small Mexican town I was visiting, but within 24 hours of my plane landing I was shaking hands with Lance Armstrong and bunking with a guy suffering from a debilitating drug problem.
Social Work in the Tenderloin Will Kill Something Inside of You
My friend Lorian is a social worker in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, a neighborhood containing seven of the ten most violent crime plots in the city. Homelessness, public drug use, and prostitution are said to be as common there as the liquor stores and...
Our Guidance Counselor Likes Whores and Cocaine
David Mendelowitz was a dean of students and guidance counselor at Scarsdale High School for 15 years. He just got arrested for being involved in a prostitution ring and coke dealing operation. So, we figured it'd be a good idea to talk to his students.
Road Trip: Finding Marion Barry
On Monday former VICE managing editor and recently appointed cultural news editor of the Daily Beast Michael Moynihan and I headed to Washington, DC to see what our nation's great capital had to say on the day of the third presidential debate.
Big Surprise – Wide Receivers Get Arrested a Lot
It’s no secret that NFL players get arrested a lot, but why? I created an Excel sheet detailing the 75 reported arrests of NFL players since 2011. I broke down each arrest by the following criteria: Date of Arrest, player name, violation, position, and...
Mitchell Jackson Has an Excellent Jump Shot
Mitchell Jackson is a writer from Portland and a protégé of legendary editor Gordon Lish who has what his brother calls a “James Jones-style jumper with great form.” He’s also the creator of two kids, the owner of a great smile, and has the ability to...
My Neck, My Back, My Pussy, and My Life - Take Two
Khia talks about her pussy, her life, her crack, and making comic books.
The (ex) Biggest Heroin Dealer in the Whole Wide World
By the time Suleyman Ergun was 21 years old, he was the world's most prolific and powerful seller of smack.
Marion Barry: Guardian Angel Of Punk Rock
Marion Barry, the much maligned former mayor of Washington, DC, is mostly known as a punch line. As a synonym for "smoking crack," he embodied white America's media-based fantasy of 80s urban blacks-entitled, lazy, corrupt, drug addled, and taking...
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Every month we get at least three of these things. What do you want us to do? Make a joke about kids doing crack? Kids do crack all the time.
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Chopping off a guy's dick is gross. Chopping off a guy's dick who has super-serious venereal warts is mega-gross.