Meth, not even once.

Meth has a critical tendency to make people turn insanely brutish. There has been many instances through out history where meth has turned perfectly good people into cold blooded killers. There is a significant amount of evidence that says Matthew Shepherd was using Meth. Bryan Fischer, host of "focal point" says… "Every thing you have heard about Matthew Shepherd is wrong, he was killed by a gay lover over drugs" This is obviously very vague.  It does not mean that Matthew was on meth, however his murderer, Aren McKinney might have been on Meth according to Stephan Hemenez, a journalist who wrote "The book of Matt".  In an interview, Stephan says "Erin McKinney knew Matthew Shepherd before Matthew moved to Laramie.  Erin McKinney was a drug dealer." These statements suggest that Erin might have been involved in more ways than people have come to know. How precisely he was involved though is something Stephan Hemenez can answer very well. In another interview he said "Matthew according to scores, had meth the night he was killed and was willing to exchange it for money, but Erin did not have the money that night so he came up with the idea to rob him." Although these statements are miles away from any thing most people have heard about this case, They have some truth. Rachael Martin from NPR says in an interview with Mr. Hemenez "After a decade of research in Laramie, Hemenez has pieced together his own story." Later in the interview, Hemenez states, "There are several people that literally spoken about the fact that they used meth with Erin up until the morning of the crime." this might mean that Erin got himself so addicted that he would do any thing to get more. It could also mean that Erin was already using at that point at the and killed Matthew because he went into a meth induced rage. no one would know unless they were there.