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    May 25, 2012

    So You Want to Buy a Former Meth Lab!: Meth-Testing Houses the New Big Thing

    There are lots of important things to consider when choosing an apartment, house or trailer: commute time, distance to retail centers, public schools -- but perhaps the most important thing of all is, "How do I get rid of that stagnant meth-lab odor?" Well, thanks to companies like USA Decon, you ... More >>

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    March 1, 2012

    The Old Meth-in-the-Vadge Trick: Two Trinity County Women Try to Pull It in Two Weeks

    A text-message sent to an undercover led to the arrest of two meth suspects at the gates of the Trinity, Texas, suburb called Hawg Heaven on Monday. Trinity County Constable Woody Wallace told KTRE that when he and Trinity police arrived on the scene, Brittany Williams, 22, and Shaun Calhoun, 28, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    So Maybe Those TCU Football Player Drug Test Failure Estimates Were A Bit Off

    It had all the earmarks of the next big college football scandal. Alas, what initially appeared to be a potentially program-crippling drug epidemic within the TCU football team may turn out to be on the level of mere regular college shenanigans. Taking a page out of Jose Canseco's book (Remember C ... More >>

  • Music

    February 2, 2012

    Elizabeth Cook

    It had all the earmarks of the next big college football scandal. Alas, what initially appeared to be a potentially program-crippling drug epidemic within the TCU football team may turn out to be on the level of mere regular college shenanigans. Taking a page out of Jose Canseco's book (Remember C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Jeffrey Tomorris Wright : Escapes From Trunk To Tell Cops About Buying Coke With Counterfeit Bills

    Sounds like quite a scene for Houston Police to roll up on last month... According to court records, on October 16, a squad car was dispatched to the scene of a disturbance with a weapon in the 4500 block of Yale, just north of Crosstimbers in Independence Heights. Just as they arrived, they saw 3 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Comment of the Day: God Bless The Simpsons

    ​Here on Eating Our Words, the commenters absolutely make the blog, and our Comment of the Day honors the best of the bunch. Every day, we read you guys and pick the commenter, or commenters, who made us laugh, cry, salivate over something delicious, or think about things in a new way. In re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    DPS: The Mexican Drug Cartels Are Coming After Texas High Schoolers

    They're coming for your high schoolers.​The Texas Department of Public Safety issued a warning today to state residents that didn't sound at all alarming; it just mentioned that "the Mexican Cartels are Recruiting Texas High School Students." Yes, those innocent kids you blithely send off to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Clarence Leroy Teel: Cops Raid Hospital Room, Find Well-Stocked Illicit Pharmacy

    Some people get happy in different ways​According to court records, it all started on August 14 when a nurse at Methodist Willowbrook hospital noticed that the patient in room 6412 was leaving a few syringes around. That struck her as odd, as the patient in that room, 52-year-old Clarence Lero ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    "Project Delirium": Big Nationwide Drug Round-Up Results in Texas Arrests

    The hammer comes down.​No, "Project Delirium" isn't the latest Anthrax album; It's a nationwide crackdown targeting alleged members of the La Familia Michoacana Drug Cartel. It's been a 20-month operation, and in the latest wave of arrests beginning this month, 221 suspects have been taken in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Robert Keith Logan: Bible-Toting, Cadillac-Driving East Texas Meth Dealer (Allegedly)

    Robert Logan: Meth and a Bible.​Robert Keith Logan was one of the more unusual suspects the Titus County drug cops had ever snared in one of their Northeast Texas buy-busts. "Sometimes people don't look the way you think they would look if they're selling dope," Titus County Sheriff Tim Ingra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Katy ISD Cop Dennis Olivier: Boss, Someone Took The Heroin, Coke, Meth & Weed You Gave Me

    No need to lock your truck or anything.​As a K-9 unit cop for Katy ISD, Dennis Olivier tooled around with a white tackle box full of drugs in his squad car. The department-issued narcotics kit was used to train the dog, so that man and dog could do their part in the war on drugs. But in a cr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Terrell Rogers: Three-Pronged Effort To Hide Weed Ends In Felony Charge

    Angelina County JailTerrell Rogers: How not to dispose of your weed evidence​Say what you will about Terrell Rogers of Angelina County, but you can't give him anything less than an A for effort. The heavily-inked 24-year-old was arrested after a traffic stop on Highway 59 just north of his ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Terry Sims: Amazing Mumford Wannabe Fails to Make Meth Disappear

    Angelina County JailTerry Sims: ALMOST outwitted the cops​Apparently Terry Michael Sims enjoys his meth and doesn't much care who knows it. Earlier this week, the 33-year-old Tyler man evidently made a spectacle of himself in public, and police in the town of Huntington were called out to inve ... More >>

  • Music

    April 21, 2011

    George Thorogood & the Destroyers

    Angelina County JailTerry Sims: ALMOST outwitted the cops​Apparently Terry Michael Sims enjoys his meth and doesn't much care who knows it. Earlier this week, the 33-year-old Tyler man evidently made a spectacle of himself in public, and police in the town of Huntington were called out to inve ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2011

    American: The Bill Hicks Story

    Angelina County JailTerry Sims: ALMOST outwitted the cops​Apparently Terry Michael Sims enjoys his meth and doesn't much care who knows it. Earlier this week, the 33-year-old Tyler man evidently made a spectacle of himself in public, and police in the town of Huntington were called out to inve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    Brett Favre's Sister Would Do Anything for Meth (MUGSHOT ALERT!)

    Yes, Brett Favre's sister is named Brandi​In Season Five of The Sopranos, Tony is dealing with a lot of shit. In addition to the usual set of headaches -- little things like RICO statutes and wondering each day if that would be the day that the New York crew decides to off him -- Tony was d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Stevie Victoria Brown-Crever: Pot Bust Stems From Michigan Plates?

    Stevie Brown-Crever: Tough luck on 59​The Montgomery County Police Reporter is a just-the-facts publication; here's one of their latest stories: Sunday evening approximately 7:00P.M. Deputy Juan Chapa and his partner Porter [a dog, by the way] were on routine patrol along US 59 near Creekwood ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Willie Nelson's "Green Friday" Leads To Teapot Party

    ​If you are a cop in Texas - OK, a cop anywhere in the world - when you pull over a tour bus and out pops a gnomish man with grayish-red hair and you smell pot smoke, you smile and nod, get an autograph and go on your way. It's 2010, and we live in a world where Willie Nelson can still get a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Meth Fires Galore In Lufkin

    Photos courtesy Angleina County SOGilbert Sayers: Would you rent a room to this guy?​Man, Lufkin's got the crystal methamphetamine blues bad. Just as one high-profile meth lab fire case comes to a close, another one opens... We begin with the adventures of Gilbert Sanders and Charles Euper... ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    CVS: No Longer Available For All Your Meth-Making Needs

    CVS: No longer a convenient stop for meth dealers​CVS, the drugstore chain that seems to have an outlet on every Houston intersection that doesn't have a Walgreen's on it, has agreed to pay a whopping $75 million fine to make up for selling a key ingredient used in cooking meth.The chain failed to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Rapper Tow Down, Brother Arrested On Drug Charges

    Bryan Theriot, a/k/a Tow Down, a/k/a "Arrested Again"​Tall Caucasian rapper Tow Down, aka Bryan Theriot, made mainstream news in 2008, when The Man raided his posh Sienna Plantation home and seized about 50 marijuana plants. But as sweet as Tow Down's hydro set-up was, it looks down ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Recipe: Dairy Oxycontin, a.k.a. Macaroni & Cheese

    Vancouver Bites! ​I attempted to read Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin's Skinny Bitch once, a few years back. They explained what was behind our yearning for Cheddar, Colby, Brie, Havarti, Romano, and Gouda. "Morphine, along with codeine and other opiates are naturally produced in cows' livers a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    The Stern-Gaiser Affair: HPD Arrests Alleged Shooter

    Photo courtesy HCSOMichelle Gaiser, alleged criminal mastermind​A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with events surrounding the alleged murder-for-hire plot of Yvonne Stern, the Bellaire trial lawyer's wife who survived three recent attempted hits.Houston police say that 26-year-old Da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Nikki Araguz: A Life Examined, With Many Twists Along The Way

    Nikki & Thomas fought often in the months before his death​It's going to be a while before the courts sort out whether Thomas Araguz and Nikki Purdue had a legal marriage; and until that happens, the Araguz and Purdue families say they will not be able to properly mourn the fallen Wharton fire ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Richard Lee: Former Houstonian Leading California's Legal-Weed Battle

    Houstonian showing Californians the way​Californians, those wacky folks, will be voting in November on a referendum to legalize recreational marijuana.Not medical marijuana, recreational marijuana.And they've got a Houstonian -- and his 80-year-old mother, who still lives here -- to thank.Richard ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Game Time: Houston Texans: Relevance, Thy Name Is Cushing

    Cushing, perhaps pondering the medical mysteries he's endured​The word "relevance" has been thrown around quite a bit these last couple years over at Reliant Stadium, as in "The Texans are seeking...." They're finding out the hard way the fast track to relevance is sometimes covered in hCG. Someh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Jerome Ponette Wrecks Six Cars After Getting 86'd From Strip Club

    Hungover and -- I did WHAT last night?​Wow, helluva night at the strip club for 40-year-old Jerome Ponette. First, he got kicked out of Mirage Cabaret on West 34th Street for allegedly being drunk. Then he got behind the wheel of his Mercedes Benz and went all Mallachi brothers in the parking lot, ... More >>

  • Music

    April 15, 2010

    Elizabeth Cook

    Hungover and -- I did WHAT last night?​Wow, helluva night at the strip club for 40-year-old Jerome Ponette. First, he got kicked out of Mirage Cabaret on West 34th Street for allegedly being drunk. Then he got behind the wheel of his Mercedes Benz and went all Mallachi brothers in the parking lot, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Stoner Follies: Bryan Man's Mislaid Bong Leads To Two Felony Charges

    ​Bryan's Gary Emil Maale, 20, faces two counts of felony drug possession after a cop patrolling Maale's apartment complex noticed a bong left in full view on his front porch. Evidently that piqued the curiosity of the cop, who reported that he decided to pay Maale a visit and noticed the smell of ... More >>

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    August 13, 2009

    John Pipkin

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    December 4, 2008

    Girls Rock!

    Summer camp was never this cool

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    November 6, 2008

    Dazed and Confused

    Catch the high school cult classic that features a young Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey

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    October 9, 2008

    Stephen Hunter

    The fifth Bob Lee Swagger novel shoves it all in there

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    September 25, 2008

    David Handler

    Have lunch with the author of The Sour Cherry Surprise

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    August 2, 2007

    Chris Porter

    This Last Comic Standing star recalls the late, great Bill Hicks

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