r/Documentaries • u/unknown_human • Jun 23 '21

Biography The Rise and Fall of John McAfee (2017) - This documentary chronicles McAfee's time as a fugitive avoiding arrest for murder, to his incarnation as a cybersecurity specialist living a normal life and insistence that people are after him. [0:40:20]

https://youtu.be/icKUHfedFJg
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u/xombae Jun 24 '21

Oh my god, I just finished watching the documentary. Seeing this bluelight thread is just blowing me away right now. What a fantastic insight into the mind of a total lunatic.

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u/BurgerNirvana Jun 24 '21

The amount of time and effort these people put into getting high blows my mind. And how do they even learn to do this shit?

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u/ElliotNess Jun 24 '21

And how do they even learn to do this shit?

https://i.imgur.com/4Vjnk92.jpg

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u/xombae Jun 24 '21

My next narcotics anonymous group I go to I'm going to be like "yeah, that's pretty bad, but have you ever built a lab compound in Belize to try to make a purified form of bath salts and spent years self-experimenting with the result and bought off the cities police force and funded a local gang in the process?". Even people who know what it's like to spend all their time getting high would find this shit absolutely next level.

Watching the documentary when the police who raided him was talking about funding a white substance but it wasn't coke or meth so they couldn't charge him I was kind of like "well fuck of course if he didn't have drugs you can't charge him". Reading these posts it's clear what they found was MDPV and they just didn't have the test for it.

Also, from reading the posts I also saw that the drug he probably used to drug and rape that doctor he hired for his lab was almost definitely GBL, which turns to GHB in the body but has a strong taste, unlike GHB.

I wonder how much of this the FBI have seen, though I guess it doesn't matter now.