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Guardian
Patrick Barkham
The Guardian, Tuesday 20 November 2012 20.00 GMT
With reader comments
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/20/john-mcafee-dont-see-myself-as-paranoid
Patrick Barkham
The Guardian, Tuesday 20 November 2012 20.00 GMT
With reader comments
The eccentric software entrepreneur is on the run, a 'person of interest' in the murder of a neighbour in Belize. But who is the man behind the headlines? He gets in touch with the Guardian to protest his innocence.
Since then, McAfee has attracted saturation media coverage. Is he "bonkers" as the Belize prime minister said? Or is he oppressed? Or has the former addict returned to drugs? In 2010, McAfee posted about MDPV, a psychoactive stimulant found in bath salts, on a drugs message-board. He found it "the finest drug ever conceived, not just for the indescribable hypersexuality but also for the smooth euphoria and mild comedown". More recently, MDPV has gained the alarmist soubriquet "the zombie drug" after a user chewed the face of another man in Florida. McAfee posted about how he was producing MDPV but then told Davis this was all an elaborate prank to try to generate 1,000 posts on the web forum. "My life is fucked up enough without drugs, and always has been," McAfee told Wired magazine. Most recently, McAfee blogged: "I have repeatedly stated I do not do drugs and am seriously opposed to drugs."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/20/john-mcafee-dont-see-myself-as-paranoid

