Obie like his friend Suge Knight here..are aficionadoses of Washington D.C.'s FInest Ale!
Posted on 03/20/2015 1:23:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Law enforcement officials and medical personnel are warning people about the risks of a dangerous new synthetic drug that is growing in popularity in the streets of South Florida. Just last month, a man was caught on surveillance camera attempting to kick in the hurricane glass doors of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department headquarters.
It was later determined that that man, 50-year-old James West, was high off of Flakka, a synthetic street drug mix with a base of bath salts that can result in paranoia, anxiety, psychosis and hallucinations.
According to police, West was hallucinating and believed that 25 cars were chasing him down Broward Boulevard. West was kicking at the door with such great force, you can see the glass of the door shaking in the surveillance video.
"We are actually seeing a lot more patients coming in hallucinating," Dr. Nabil El Sanadi tells NBC 6 South Florida of Flakka. "Very fast heart rate, high body temperature, with almost super human strength."
Sanadi, an emergency physician at Broward Health, says the drug can be smoked, snorted or ingested for a quick and cheap high, but that high often results in a "bad reaction."
"The brain tells them that there's something going on when there may be nothing going on," Sanadi says.
Other potential side effects from Flakka include permanent effects on the heart or brain leading to a stroke or even a heart attack.
As for West, his "dangerous trip" left him bruised and bloody - and behind bars.
Emergency room doctors say they tend to see an increase in patients suffering the effects of Flakka on the weekends. Often, the victims are not even aware of what is actually in the drug. According to the United Way of Broward County's Commission of Substance Abuse, Flakka - also known as "gravel" - is a bath salt synthetic stimulant that is purchased online, repackaged into packets or capsules, then sold by low level drug dealers.
It is often mixed with methamphetamine or other drugs.
Other side effects of Flakka include breakdown of muscle tissue and kidney failure, and a potential lifetime need for dialysis for its users.
At least 126 people died from the use of Flakka in Florida in 2013, according to the organization.
Must be wonderful to be a cop today.
OK, so the drug explains those symptoms that James West was experiencing.
What explains Obama's similar symptoms?
Because the ghastly and horrific side-effects of Krokodil weren’t enough.
Flakka is alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone if you are a science nerd.
The other stuff is a butane extract of cannabis, used to be called “wax” cuz it looks like earwax.
The budder will indeed work in a e-cig with a little work but a-PVP I’m not sure of, it vaporizes at a pretty high temp. Meth pipe yes.
Screw that, I want my powdered alcohol!
Flakka is Wakka.
Ya know what causes some of this? People trying to beat urinalysis with designer drugs. Damn near killed a friend of mine from high school.
Where can I score some. I’m hungry enough to eat someones brain.
What do you think he was doing during Benghazi that he couldn’t be bothered?
The media just loves these stories. A new drug comes out. Someone goes crazy on it. And they get to stir up a hysteria. I’m not trying to minimize the bad impact of the drug — I’m sure its horrible and no one should take it — but it seems we get these stories every couple years about the horrible new drug that is taking over the country, coupled with an example of someone going crazy on it.
If they put it in Michelle's school lunches everyone will be afraid to touch it.
Better panic man! We’re all too free.
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Holy cow.
I’m sure it’s worth it.
Know what else causes it?
Outlawing natural drugs that are known and creating a market for rogue chemists to create ghastly synthetics. These would never exist if cannabis and coca were legal.
The equivalent of “cocaine crazed negroes” now exist but only because cocaine was made illegal
Man, kids these days sure do have fun! At least it isn't dangerous, like second-hand smoke.
Took a moment, but got it.
Well played.
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