Let’s not rehash the case, or debate whether or not the question in the OP is relevant to it. The GQ question on the table, per the OP, is whether or not evidence exists that Martin was getting high on “a homemade mixture based on cough syrup.” Please confine yourselves to that specific question. There are plenty of other threads available to debate the case or the legal issues involved.
Haven’t read any of Martin’s Facebook, but posters on other sites who have seen Martin’s Facebook and Twitter (pre-hacking) say that there were a few references to DMX, the rapper. It’s very possible that people took this similar combination of letters and ran with it.
I’ve seen this kind of misread before with the Casey Anthony case: true crime aficionados on the Internet analyzing the social media sites of Anthony and her friends for insights into what happened, but without any knowledge of youth culture or drug culture.
The “reports” that he was high at the time are likely to be false.
Ever drink NyQuil or taken codeine? The last thing you want to do is fight. (Personal experience taking both)
Some people when they hear the word “drugs involved” immediately link it to hostile, crazy, over the top, behavior - no matter what the actual drug might be. Anyone remember Refer Madness?
I’m immediately dubious of any facts that originate on a blog, doubly so if it’s a self-proclaimed political blog. Triply so when the blogger cites his own online “research.”
The OP’s question is “how accurate are these reports?” They’re the unsubstantiated ramblings of an anonymous blogger whose reporting consists of some overly-enthusiastic Google searches. In other words, completely unreliable.
If you want unbiased information, go to the Miami Herald or the Orlando Sentinel or other new outlets with journalists who have gotten off the internet, out of their basement, and gone out to talk to relevant people, and do some actual investigative work.
If you want titillating gossip and wild rumor, plenty of blogs like this one to fit the bill.
Yes, I’ve taken both. I cited some of the side effects. Not proud of it but I yelled at some lady for cutting off another car years ago. Maybe it was because I felt like death warmed over. Don’t know. but I did cite some of the side effects so in theory they exist. But I haven’t heard it was in his system so at worst he’s talked about doing it on the internet. And that has yet to be proven. So the whole thread is a non-starter until facts say otherwise.