cannibalism lol

[Gregness]

Sort of puts a new spin on having the munchies don't it?

Rudy Eugene—the Florida man who was suspected to be high on "bath salts" last month when he was shot and killed by police after refusing to stop chewing a homeless man's face—was not on "bath salts" after all.

According to the Miami-Dade County medical examiner's office, toxicology tests performed on Eugene found marijuana in his system, but no street drugs, prescription drugs or alcohol. Eugene also tested negative for adulterants commonly mixed with street drugs.

"The department has also sought the assistance of an outside forensic toxicology reference laboratory, which has confirmed the absence of 'bath salts,' synthetic marijuana and LSD," the medical examiner said.

But that doesn't necessarily mean cannabis was the cause of cannibalism.

"There is an almost infinite number of chemical substances out there that can trigger unusual behavior," Bruce Goldberger, professor and director of toxicology at the University of Florida, told the Associated Press. "There are many of these synthetic drugs that we currently don't have the methodology to test on, and that is not the fault of the toxicology lab. The challenge today for the toxicology lab is to stay on top of these new chemicals and develop methodologies for them, but it's very difficult and very expensive. There is no one test or combination of tests that can detect every possible substance out there."

Hopefully we can avoid the idiocy of the end of the last thread for at least a little bit.

I honestly have my doubts that it was only chemistry at work here. Sure chemical substances can cause 'unusual behavior' but it seems unlikely to me that any combination of substances would do THAT to someone on their own.

Eh, who knows, I'm not a pharmacist.

What I AM curious about though, is how long it will take the anti-legalization activists to latch onto this in counter to the "pot doesn't hurt anyone" argument.

[Bells]

I'm no fan of pot, but i really see no real connection here... and yes, probably people claiming there is are likely just pushing their own agenda with it...

I also can't actually imagine a simple chemical reaction causing THAT type of outburst over and over again... how many cases we have going around now? 4-5 in the span of a couple of months?

I dunno, i seem to recall stuff about this from ages ago, but i can't really recall... but wasn't there a deal where someone in a weaken state of mind (and susceptible to violent outbursts) to be instigated or "inspired" if you will... by these "zombie outbreaks" the media and the people keep talking here and there? Kinda like Mass Hysteria but focused on a single, weakened mind?

[Marelo]

The "zombie" crap is just a media fad. None of these incidents have anything to do with each other, nor are they actually all that unusual except in that the media is paying attention to them now.

People did weird violent things long before now. People have chewed on people's faces before, even. Now it's just popular to talk about so the media is talking about it.

[Jagos]

Originally Posted by Bells

I'm no fan of pot, but i really see no real connection here... and yes, probably people claiming there is are likely just pushing their own agenda with it...

I also can't actually imagine a simple chemical reaction causing THAT type of outburst over and over again... how many cases we have going around now? 4-5 in the span of a couple of months?

I dunno, i seem to recall stuff about this from ages ago, but i can't really recall... but wasn't there a deal where someone in a weaken state of mind (and susceptible to violent outbursts) to be instigated or "inspired" if you will... by these "zombie outbreaks" the media and the people keep talking here and there? Kinda like Mass Hysteria but focused on a single, weakened mind?

Since some drugs are illegal, people are using "legal" alternatives with disastrous results.

[Magus]

Well, the only one I ever thought was actually even zombie-like was this one. The others weren't even zombie-like.

Perhaps we can downgrade this to a "psycho cannibal" media firestorm.

[Pip Boy]

You guys are just trying to conceal the harsh truth that smoking weed will make you take all your clothes off and eat a man's face.

[Cloud Strife]

Originally Posted by Pip Boy

You guys are just trying to conceal the harsh truth that smoking weed will make you take all your clothes off and eat a man's face.

Not just smoking weed, apparently.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

Where did the bath salts angle come in, anyway? Also, just something to consider, but maybe the moron laced his bath salts with the funky weed & soaked in it for some period of time.

That might lead to an extreme overdose of weed in his system. And there's no guarantee the bath salts were the normal over-the-shelf variety.

As for the China case, I suspect some else than booze was also at play.

[Sifright]

you can't really overdose on the active ingredient of Weed.

[Meister]

How good that drugs exist or we might have to accept that human beings do really fucked up things to each other naturally.

Originally Posted by Sky Warrior Bob

Also, just something to consider, but maybe the moron laced his bath salts with the funky weed & soaked in it for some period of time.

That might lead to an extreme overdose of weed in his system. And there's no guarantee the bath salts were the normal over-the-shelf variety.

Nothing about this makes any sense.

e: oh wow do you believe "bath salts" are actual cosmetic bath salts that people use as drugs, cause that would be hilarious even without the "overdose on weed by soaking in it" angle.