Posted on 05/27/2012 7:51:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Bob Owens is raising the possibility:
"I had never heard of “lean” before yesterday, but apparently it is a concoction made from certain prescription cough syrups and a beverage medium, often made more palatable with candy.
One of the recipes for “lean” calls for using Arizona Iced Tea Co. watermelon fruit juice cocktail as the beverage of choice, and Skittles candy… the items found on Trayvon Martin’s body the night he was shot by George Zimmerman.
The Conservative Treehouse has a lengthy post about the recreational drug, it’s effects and side effects, and alleged screen captures of Trayvon Martin’s social media sites discussing his fondness for the concoction."
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If the story is correct it seems Trayvon’s medical records and the medical examiner’s review of his body will be revisited, to see if he used the drug frequently and in a concentrated enough form to explain his apparent confusion at the convenience store that night, the odd behavior that spurred George Zimmerman to call Sanford police, and the aggression he displayed when he fought with Zimmerman.
I read this to my wife and youngest son and their reaction was that this is a stretch. And perhap it is. Especially if you’d never heard of ‘Lean’ and if you don’t read the details of the post put up at The Conservative Treehouse.
If those details are true however, and frankly, they’re pretty convincing, then there’s yet more evidence that Zimmerman needs to be exonerated.
Read the details yourself and tell us in the comments if you think it’s a stretch.
Frankly, after doing so, I can only conclude it’s a stretch to think it a stretch.
It’s a scrip cough medicine. It contains codeine.
Interesting that the guy recommends Jolly Ranchers in it. May be a variation involving Skittles out there...
That would be construed by media as racist evidence. How dare they.....even if it's true.
Urbandictionary.com describes it (definition made in 2007)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lean
Ping
How can anyone listen to that junk? Awful.
I never should have clicked that link.
My brain is bleeding.
From another article:
“The substance of research was prodded by with this graphic of unknown attribution, dealing with the possibility that Trayvon Martin was not only an illegal drug-user, but possibly a drug-dealer.”
Only if a full drug screen was ordered. As of the moment, all I’ve seen is the THC screen.
I don’t know. I’ll give you a good music link after that rubbish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtFBRJFN3p8
I gave a strong warning. Ping to #30 for something far better.
We can speculate our little hearts out, but the court’s not going to care. The only two issues are did Trayvon attack George (not why), and was George in fear of his life? I haven’t seen any evidence yet that would contradict Zimmerman on either element. All the rest of it’s of passing interest to the public, but the jury will never hear it.
Yep. What a disgusting subculture. And the black community is gonna have to clean it up. Nothing to do with me. Period!
I won’t be holding my breath on them.
Eh, I’m skeptical. If Martin had imbibed of the “real” version, the hydrocone in most prescription cough syrups would very likely have shown up in the coroner’s tox screen along with the marijuana they did find.
“Fake” Lean made with OTC cough syrup might be another matter, of course. Dextromethorphan (sp?) will show up on a drug screen, but I have no idea if that’s part of the routine screening process or not. All I *can* say for sure is that an overload of Dextro in your system is NO fun.
I had the creeping crud finals week my junior year in college. I kept pushing myself and accidentally overdid it with the cold medicine. Man...what a night. Jitters, vertigo/disorientation, and even some mild hallucinations (every time I layed down and tried to sleep, it felt like ants or something crawling on my skin). Boy howdee, I never made that mistake again!
well, well, well...
I read a page or 2 of that article a couple of days ago. I couldn’t make it through the whole thing. The part I read was actually interesting. No idea if factual but I do remember drug companies having to pull some Robitussun like products because people, mainly kids, were using them with other stuff to get high.
So who knows? maybe there’s something to it. Maybe the kid was flyin on friggin Skittles. Don’t matter if he was only on a sugar high, he f’d up and got killed for it.
That’s probably the same thing your parents said about The Archies.
From his tweets, Martin was trying to find a source for codiene. Did he or didn’t he? It might explain the way he seemed lost and disoriented in the 7 eleven.
The cough syrup gives them the high. Prescription problems in the Sanford CVS. They got caught selling enormous amounts of Oxycontin but they also may have been selling cough syrup. Any local know the details?
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