Zombie not on Bath Salts he was on Weed

[Angel"EL DIABLO"Diaz]

As someone who is related to a neurologist... let me shed some light on this.
Believe it or not, Marijuana can and has done this to people. But here's the catch. 99.5 percent of us can enjoy marijuana. However, in people who have developed or shown symptoms of schizophrenia can be turned into Axe Crazy Maniac's.

hey not to call you liar by any means but can you provide a source or proof of something like this happening with weed cause google cant really find anything sure I find plenty saying schizophrenics shouldnt smoke it but nothing on them eating peoples faces off naked and continuing even after getting shot

[Jeremy "The Gerbil" Arel]

I read another article on it and from what I gathered they suspect that it was another synthetic drug that they dont know how to test for.

[Chris Herzog]

I read another article on it and from what I gathered they suspect that it was another synthetic drug that they dont know how to test for.

Same here, I've read several and they are all speculation being preached as truth. The anti weed progranda train is just going to run wild with this.

[Charlemange August K.]

hey not to call you liar by any means but can you provide a source or proof of something like this happening with weed cause google cant really find anything sure I find plenty saying schizophrenics shouldnt smoke it but nothing on them eating peoples faces off naked and continuing even after getting shot

Thats because if you read the article they only found JWH and LSD in him not weed.

[Joachim Hoff]

Whatever he had in him, what triggers actions like that is a persons psyche. He was psychotic to begin with. I mean.. you are eating a guys face while he is still alive.. I'd blame his brain first and foremost, or reading too much Thomas Harris books, and an unhealthy fascination with Hannibal Lecter!

[Mike Matthews]

Never in my life have I seen weed make anyone violent. Yea, maybe attack a bag of chips violent but not chew a guys face off violent. If THC was all he had in his system then he had some mental issues already. As far as the schizophrenic thing goes I'm not fully buying that either. My uncle was diagnosed with that & he smokes. It actually helps him calm down & relax better than his pills they give him. So you also cant lump that group in there either.

Hell, remember when they would try to tell you in DARE that a joint was as bad as a whole pack of cigs, LOL. Funny cause I have friends who smoke cigs and not pot that cant run to the end of the driveway without passing out much less grapple for an hour. Yet somehow I manage just fine and I smoke all through the day every day. Is it true it can effect people differently, of course. But effect them to the point of eating a guys face off, I dont see that being possible. Something else played into that but I agree, anti-pot people are gonna use this for ammo. Funny they put so much effort into this & not other things currently legal that kill thousands yearly.

[DanConway]

As someone who is related to a neurologist... let me shed some light on this.
Believe it or not, Marijuana can and has done this to people. But here's the catch. 99.5 percent of us can enjoy marijuana. However, in people who have developed or shown symptoms of schizophrenia can be turned into Axe Crazy Maniac's. This is due to the THC's major role in acting in the same area of the brain that coordinates Schizo episodes, meaning the THC can be a catalyst to a major meltdown... like this.
Dont get me wrong I have nothing against mary J. This is literally a 100,000 to 1 kind of case. But... you wont hear the politicians saying that. Also, look up the movie Reefer Madness. A 1950's propoganda movie about weed. Its so off base with reality its almost funny.

Before this long post I want to point out that news sites today are starting to suggest they think it was a legal high over the counter party drug similar to bath salts although not them, so we will see what comes of that but anyway...

As someone who studies psychology(although not yet too knowledgeable) and widely uses and supports marijuana, let me add some additional considerations:

The above post is slightly misleading although accurate; THC and other cannibinoids have been shown to produce activity in the regions of the brain associated with schizophrenia. Interestingly, several studies widely circulated by the media recently suggest over stimulation in this activity at a young age can cause brain pattern development leading to schizophrenia and internalized anxiety issues later in life, which does make sense, but with limited use and prohibited exposure till a responsible age is an entirely avoidable concern.

The observable mechanisms in the brain related to schizophrenia are also the EXACT same as those active during creative thought and imagination, and many psychologists currently theorize many schizophrenic and paranoid delusional patients to be suffering from an inability to distinguish those things as imaginary POSSIBILITIES as opposed to factual TRUTHS. In addition they are similar area to those active during introverted thought, which is a strong and common effect for weed to trigger: introversion. What is extroversion and introversion in a functional example: extroversion is basically living in the world in front of you, reactive directly to physical world outside your self, introversion is living in your mind in thought...

Now lets produce a hypothetical situation: say you are mentally unstable, which ALOT of people are... Drug use, a troubled past... Who KNOWS the mental history of this Zombiefaceeater, but there's a whole lot of people out there who are powder kegs of their own psychological troubles. Now lets say this person is also a natural extrovert, they tend not to over analyze things in words, tend to just live in the moment etc. When you smoke weed with a low tolerance you can get VERY high, and im sure we've all observed the occasional person have a legitimate panic attack from it (like those videos like of the cop who thought he ewas going to die etc). At this point they are getting an adrenaline dump, their body temperature is rising very fast, their thoughts are scattered and non concurrent due to the situation let ALONE the intoxication, and upon that, they are now living inside an internal monologue in their mind about it and whats going on, instead of just experiencing their reality. Now how often do you think of weird shit and are overly creative when high? all the time? Becuase weed stimulates the areas of your brain that make you creative, which as weve covered is the same as skitzophrenia, the differnce being most people can tell those crazy thoughts are just that, crazy thoughts; But what if your mental health is poor overall, your mental willpower and resolution to make determinations of whats actually real or just an impulse is weak, and your experiencing an extreme panic attack while your VERY disoriented from the intoxication and adrenaline, confussion, anxiety etc.. Now for this person to attack someone is no longer such an extreme leap to conclude as opposed from the image of a pothead sitting in his basement smoking weed... But let's be real, in this situation, the person is already the powder keg bomb -- weed is only the match lighting it, there are 1000 other substances that do so including many of which are prescribed to people with mental issues, if this guy did only do weed, he would of been alot worse on bath salts.

There is even a specific gene they have singled out as being present in the DNA of MORE THAN HALF of ALL schizophrenic patients that is NOT present in many people, and in most cases where there is not a history of mental illness in the family, this gene IS NOT PRESENT in the DNA of family members preceding the troubled individual, and in families with histories of mental illness, is commonly found in one of the parents, showing that the permutation can occur seemingly at random into the next generation.

The bottom line is there is MANY variables responsible in these situations, and people want to lock down and focus on one, turn it into a black and a white issue which results in lack of understanding and ignorance. The media doesn't care and is going to print whatever going to make the biggest wave among the masses...

[John Mejia]

Just like reefer madness my friends

[Kurzy]

not using quotations right meaning that JWH and LSD were present not Bath Salts.

I disagree. The reason the reference to Bath Salts is in quotations is because "Bath salts" is a street/slang name for the drug, not an official name.

The way I read it, that sentence is saying that their results showed there were no traces of Synthetic Marijuana OR Bath salts OR LSD.

I don't know why they would even say "synthetic" marijuana. Unless they are refering to that "Salvia" shit, which I have heard is really a freak-out drug if you don't smoke it correctly.

Anyways in the paragraph before that, they state quite plainly: "toxicology tests performed on Eugene found marijuana in his system"


If you read on, you will see that they put all references to bath salts in quotations.

According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, the use of "bath salts" appears to be on the rise, with poison control centers fielding 20 times as many calls related to the "drug" in 2011 as they did in 2010. And "bath salts" have been linked to a string of bizarre crimes in the United States in recent months.

On June 3, police in Illinois said a 37-year-old man admitted to using "bath salts" before a robbery attempt in which he "dismantled a fan, plugged in a hair dryer, pulled out wires from a furnace, toyed with a hatchet and managed to pour gasoline on himself." Officers used a stun gun to subdue him.

[Mike Matthews]

I don't know why they would even say "synthetic" marijuana. Unless they are refering to that "Salvia" shit, which I have heard is really a freak-out drug if you don't smoke it correctly.

Two completely different drugs. Salvia is on a whole different level than pot. It can cause you to see things & trip almost like acid. The synthetic pot they speak of is also known as spice. They have been cracking down on that stuff for a while, usually its sold at little hole in the wall gas stations cause technically its not pot & doesnt contain THC, it has synthetic man made drugs on it that cause the high.