That picture will get you high on art
To the untrained eye they look like harmless pictures, colored by a child to bring some joy to her daddy serving time in prison. And what joy they would bring – they’re laced with drugs.
The yellow stains are Suboxone, a drug used to treat opiate that also do the trick if you’re looking to get high. But you can’t pull the wool over the guards at the Cape May County Correctional Center in the United States for every.
After getting a tip in February, officers started checking inmate mail for anything looking suspicious. While the artistically drug coated pages do look like watercolor paint the idea of a kid having only yellow watercolor triggered suspicion.
The papers were sent for testing and the gig was up. [Geekologie]
