I was viewing an old horror movie tonight about your "Ole Garden variety of zombies", well maybe not common. It movie was entitled "Garden of the Dead". This 1972, horror flick is similar to Night of the Living Dead, but with a prison update. It is all about the Camp Hoover prison inmates working on a chain gang who go berserk after snorting formaldehyde and end up being killed by the guards at the prison during a riot and prison break. These dead Colorado prisoners are in turn buried in the prison garden, but unfortunately for the guards, the formaldehyde has managed to preserve the corpses and as a result, they rise up from their graves, and raid the garden shed, as they accumulate a few sharp tools and proceed to get their revenge. Of all the bad films made this one would be the equivalent of "Plan 9 from Outer Space" which was bad enough. Although it's less than an hour long that is time lost and you can never get it back. It was a total waste of my time to watch it. Not the best of plots, poor acting, substandard production values, poorly written script, however it did get me to thinking. Could a mortuary chemical such as this be used as a recreation drug?
Strangely using embalming fluid as a drug is not a recent activity. Embalming fluid consists of formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol, hardly a combination that looks very attractive and all of which are potent intoxicants. I understand that this formaldehyde abuse was extremely popular in the prisons in the early 70's. You would be surprised at the number of addicts who are addicted to this mortuary chemical cocktail.
Addicts have been known to try crazy things. No longer are these chemicals restricted to the high school biology labs or the local funeral homes, but actually an experimental drug of today's youth. Just when you thought the youths of America had reached an all-time low with their spray paint sniffing something else comes along or think about the craze of getting high from the common kitchen spice - nutmeg. So now we hear about embalming fluid. With this in mind, I decided to conduct some additional research on the topic. I only had to type into the search engine, "recreational use of embalming fluid" and had more leads than I could research.
Not only was this practice taking place all around our country, but it has taken place since the 1960s. I wonder how my wild youthful life was unable to know about this.
The usual practice is to employ the embalming fluid as a solvent for the stronger PCP. It only takes a mere milligram of PCP to make a full-size gorilla go ape (pun intended), thus the PCP cannot be ingested directly, and must be diluted with the embalming fluid. The addict will then dip a cigarette into the solution and dried it out in the freezer. This results in something known as a "fry", "fry stick", or "death stick." Unfortunately, these are sold on the street corners anywhere in the US for approximately twenty dollars. Smoking these spliffs soaked in the formaldehyde solution may certainly cause hallucinations, but is the price of cancer worth it.
If you recall just how dangerous PCP is you will remember that it makes people do crazy and vile things. Think back to a few years ago when in Florida they had a man who was tasered seventeen times and shot repeatedly with thirty rubber bullets, and still kept coming. Yep, that my friends is PCP.
Scary, isn't it? According to the CDC, smoking formaldehyde is a bad move. The stuff is not only toxic, but certified as cancerous. Not exactly something you would want to put into a living body. I will leave it at that, but our younger generation certainly needs to be careful what drugs they put into their system and remember children, embalming fluid is for corpses, not blunts.
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