Grandma busted for $10 Million ‘Purple Lean’ Drank Ring

Wow. This stuff (lean, purple drank) is more out of control than I ever imagined. Disclosure: I am a huge fan of 2 Chainz who is a big user and promoter of this purple drank, but in no way would I ever promote anyone to drink this stuff in any way shape or form.

via Chron

Federal authorities say they have cracked a ring that banked at least $10 million and used its own renegade pharmacies to purchase 97,000 pints of prescription-strength cough syrup and smuggle them from California to Houston to make a deadly potion wildly popular in the hip-hop world.

[video] Professional Athletes now addicted to cough syrup aka ‘Purple Drank’

Wow. I had no idea that athletes were drinking this stuff.

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