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01/27/2004: "Druggies"
I've been reading some very weird stuff in the textbooks for my drug class. Apparently, dipping marijuana cigarettes in embalming fluid is a hip thing to do. Embalming fluid! Discovering back at the beginning of the 1900s that the milk industry was adding formalahyde to milk to make it last longer was one of the things that spurred the Pure Food And Drug Act. And here people are voluntarily consuming it. Embalming fluid prevents dead bodies from decaying. Gross.
The funny thing is how stupid the people who smoke this mixture are. First, the study I read discovered that the embalming fluid is spiked with PCP, and the buyers were absolutely clueless about it. They honestly thought they were only doing marijuana and formalahyde. Second, this one girl said that she does "fry", which is a slang name for this mixture, but that she would never mess with marijuana in embalming fluid, because she'd heard that it messes you up really badly. She didn't even know what she was smoking!
Another article that I read made me incredulous...this person who did work for NASA smoked marijuana before doing any work because he could see things in the pictures and graphs he was looking at that he couldn't see when he was sober (imagine that). He's doing work for NASA while stoned. Yeah, I'm really gonna trust anything from them now.