This allegation that he was synthesizing bath salts makes zero sense. It's so ubiquitous and cheap, it makes as much sense as synthesizing tylenol. Don't believe the media hype and spread fud.
He says he's a troll now, like he says he faked the Exif data on the photo, and that he painted his face black and hung out around his house watching the GSU police. Read those posts though, and then think about the details of his life we're pretty confident about (he slept with teenaged girls, his partner in the antibiotics enterprise fled the country in fear of McAfee). What's the missing piece you need to judge the veracity of his posts? Just whether he routinely abused easily-obtainable recreational drugs. Are synthetic cathinone drugs even illegal yet in Belize?
What does Occam tell you? Was it all an elaborate troll? Or is that the best thing he can come up with to say now?
Being a troll does not mean that everything he says is false, nor does it mean that he is not ungrounded.
I've encountered plenty of people IRL and over the internet who are clearly ill but claim that they're only behaving that way "to watch the drama" or because they're "pulling the strings" of others. Be it a personality disorder or some form of sociopathy, it is not what I consider to be your usual troll/prankster, because the latter can turn it off when they want to.
Even if he rolls statements back later, he's always on stage, always boasting, and no amount of "I'm the puppetmaster, you've come into my trap, now dance!" and lies/coverups makes him somehow less deranged.
