It is one of the few popular gay hookup apps where someone looking to buy meth in the early morning hours in West Hollywood (and greater Los Angeles, the United States and the world) can find a dealer. That mobile phone app, used by gay men primarily to find others for sex, claims two million users in 192 countries. You can go on Grindr, a mobile hookup app headquartered on the 14th floor of the Pacific Design Center’s Red Building in West Hollywood.
In West Hollywood you don’t need to leave your apartment to cruise down “Vaseline Alley” or into the dimly lit bathroom of a gay bar to buy the drug. supply coming across the border with Mexico according to a 2014 report by state Attorney General Kamala Harris.īut where are the retail marketplaces for the drug, considered the most destructive form of addiction among gay men? In this world where many gay men first meet their partners (sexual and/or romantic) virtually rather than face-to-face, it is online. California is the primary gateway for smuggling methamphetamine into the United States, with an estimated 70% of the U.S.
