This dangerous.
THE "zombie" man who died after setting himself on fire outside the White House was "hallucinating after taking Spice laced with Angel Dust".
Police sources are said to have confirmed that Arnav Gupta, 33, had taken the drug K2 which had been laced with PCP.
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An unnamed eyewitness said: "Like a torch, his whole body was on fire.
"He was just walking like a zombie or something. Just straight, he wasn't running and screaming or anything. He was walking straight. Then they put the extinguisher on him and put his [fire] out and that's it."
He later died in hospital from burns covering 85% of his body, according to the article.
K2, also known as "Spice" is a -synthetic- cannabinoid. Meaning that it attaches to cannabinoid receptors in the human body like THC does, but it is not THC and doesn't come from the cannabis plant. They mix it up in a test tube like paint.
Watching the video (I recommend against it, because you can't un-see shit) you'll see the man standing and moving as if he doesn't feel the fire burning him. He just stands there. On fire.
That level of dissociation from the five senses is not a good thing, for a lot of reasons. It isn't good for the person taking the drug, because I very much doubt they'll ever be right again afterwards. It ain't going to wear off, my friends. We're talking brain damage so severe the victims won't be able to tie their own shoe laces or wipe their own butts.
It isn't good for anyone else either, because now we have brain-fried zombies that don't feel pain wandering around looking for more drugs. Most hand-to-hand combat techniques work by inflicting pain. These guys don't feel pain. The guy who set himself on fire didn't feel it. You could have cut off one of his limbs and he wouldn't have felt that either.
K2/Spice is one of 80+ synthetic cannabinoids currently making the rounds in the black market. K2 is not even the worst one. It is apparently pretty easy to make, as plenty of these back-yard chemists are cranking it out.
Therefore, my advice to one and all: if you or your kid wants some weed for whatever reason, get it from the legal source.
Smoking cannabis to get high is probably not good for you long term, and it is certainly a huge waste of time, but at least it won't destroy your kid's brain and the rest of his/her life with the first puff. There's plenty of very determined stoners out there that have been smoking a ton of weed since the friggin' 1960s, and they can still tie their own shoelaces.
Smoking cannabis to get high is probably not good for you long term, and it is certainly a huge waste of time, but at least it won't destroy your kid's brain and the rest of his/her life with the first puff. There's plenty of very determined stoners out there that have been smoking a ton of weed since the friggin' 1960s, and they can still tie their own shoelaces.
The Advising Phantom
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I will sadly agree with this. I have witnessed what the natural (natural and *safe* are two VERY different things, folks) product does. But the synthetics, when biochemists are still unsure of much more basic stuff? Steer WELL clear.
Yes indeed. The natural product overindulged in as a recreation is not a great thing. The synthetics, this is untested crap being cooked up by people of questionable skills and sold as-is. For the most part they don't even know what it is or what the full range of effects are.
Then these idiots MIX them with other shit, like PCP and fentanyl, and who knows what the drug interactions are going to be with something like that?
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