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Drug LSD may be behind Miami face-eating attack, police say

(Reuters) - A Miami man fatally shot by police after he refused to stop gnawing on another man's face may have been under the influence of a new form of the 1960s hallucinatory drug LSD, a top police officer said on Wednesday.

(...)

"We've had at least two incidents in the past couple of months with people claiming they took a new form of LSD and complained of feeling a burning sensation that forced them to take their clothes off and led them to become very violent," he said.

He also said the drug could be a synthetic stimulant known as bath salts, which the Drug Enforcement Administration has linked to side effects ranging from an impaired perception of reality to agitation and delusional behavior.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/30/us-usa-miami-attack-idUSBRE84T16D20120530
 
Is LSD a 1960's drug?
Are bath salts a new form of LSD?

Good to be able to learn so much from reading the newspaper, especially a quality source like Reuters.:|
 
Toronto man attacks cops, "bath salts" suspected: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/24/accused-may-have-been-on-bath-salts-source

Toronto Police suspect a man who allegedly broke one officer’s nose and another’s wrist may have been on Bath Salts, the drug used by the Miami face-eater.

A police source told the Toronto Sun two officers were ejecting a “strange-acting” man from an Etobicoke condo Sunday, near Lakeshore Rd. and 41st St.

When the trespasser man was uncooperative, the officers moved in to make an arrest and a fight broke out.

The “raging” man smashed one officer’s nose and managed to break the other’s wrist. He was eventually taken into custody and both officers were sent to hospital.

The officers were treated and released and will now take some time off, said the police source.

Bath Salts, a chemical combination of drugs with MPDV as its main ingredient, can cause hallucinations, paranoia and violent behaviour. MPDV, currently not regulated in Canada, is a synthetic stimulant similar to cocaine.

“It makes them think they have super-human strength,” said the source, noting the deadly drug is starting to pop up on Toronto’s streets.

In Miami last month, Ronald Poppo, 65, had three-quarters of his face chewed off by Rudy Eugene, 31, who was allegedly high on Bath Salts. In Louisiana, Carl Jacquneaux, 43, attacked his ex-wife’s new lover and bit a chunk off his face while allegedly on Bath Salts.

Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced in early June that the government will list MDPV on the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, under the same category heroin and cocaine.

The move will make any affiliation with MPDV illegal. The public can comment on the proposal until July 10, after which MPDV will likely be illegal by the fall.

Harley Roulston, 24, of Toronto, is charged with trespassing, resisting arrest and assaulting police officers. He will appear in court Monday
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Indeed, I cant keep track of them all. Here's another one.

(sorry if its been posted already): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...derly-womans-head-shovel-high-bath-salts.html


The man who 'smashed a 77-year-old woman in the head with shovel' and claimed he was an alien who could talk to Jesus after getting high on bath salts

This is the stark-raving madman police say bashed a 77-year-old woman in the head with a shovel after he got high on bath salts, a terrifying new drug that's legal in most places.

Robert William White, 20, is pictured screaming 'God loves you all!' as police wheel him out of his apartment on Thursday.

Officers say White claimed was an alien and that we was speaking directly with Jesus Christ because of the drugs he took.

When the elderly woman approached White, he was swinging a shovel at birds.

'I hate you and I want to kill you today,' he told the woman when she asked him to stop, according to a neighbour speaking to the Glendale News.

Police who responded to reports of the man trying to kill the woman at the apartment complex found White barricaded inside his apartment.

'He seemed completely out of sorts,' said Northwest Glendale Police Lt Bruce Fox speaking to the paper.

White was holed up for nearly an hour before police were able to enter his apartment with a key and subdue him using a 40mm rubber bullet and Taser.

Until then, a resident nearby, Abraham Cabrera, said that he had heard White screaming profanities and threatening to kill someone while glass broke.

Carried out of his apartment handcuffed, while strapped to a wheelchair, witnesses reported him yelling: 'God loves you all.'

Police said White admitted to drinking a soda mixed with bath salts, while also saying he's an alien and is able to speak to Jesus Christ.

The woman hit with the shovel was taken to an area hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police told the Glendale News.

The victim's name has not been released.

Emergency rooms in the U.S. are having to treat a wave of agitated, violent and psychotic patients high on a the synthetic drug containing a chemical derivative of methcathinone.

Increasing violence from the abusers have in several instances gone as far as biting other people's flesh in attacks described as cannibalistic and resembling 'zombies.'

Others, those biters included, have been seen running naked after stripping off all their clothes.

Effects include agitation, paranoia, hallucinations, chest pain and suicidal thoughts.

The drug is not addictive but causes acute toxicity.

While not currently banned by Federal Law it is in many regions, including the city of Los Angeles since last Fall
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'Man eats neighbour's dog alive during bad legal high': http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...ighbours-dog-alive-during-bad-legal-high.html

A MAN has been arrested after allegedly EATING his neighbour’s family dog in a frenzied attack after taking a legal high.

Michael Terron Daniel, 22, is said to have to have torn flesh from the innocent pet with his teeth before beating and strangling it to death.

The horrific attack happened after Daniel is believed to have taken synthetic cannabis known as K2.

Witnesses reported seeing him “on his hands and knees” chasing the animal while “barking and growling like a dog”.

Cops believe Daniel took the medium-sized pooch from the porch it was sitting on in Waco, Texas.

Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton told website KWTX.com that officers found him sitting outside the house with blood on his hands and clothes in an “incoherent and unresponsive” state.

He was later taken to hospital but the dog died at the scene.

The arrest last week follows the incident, which took place on June 14 when a 911 call was made reporting a man “going crazy”.

The legal high is created using herbs which are then sprayed with chemicals to give users a similar hit to cannabis.

But the drug has been known to have dangerous side effects including extreme paranoia, hallucinations and violent behavior
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No bath salts: Causeway attacker Rudy Eugene had only pot in his system

I'll merge this with the main thread eventually

Rudy Eugene, the man who chewed off a homeless man’s face on the MacArthur Causeway and was shot to death by Miami police, had no drugs in his system other than marijuana, the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s office said Wednesday afternoon.

There was widespread speculation after the May 26 incident, parts of which were caught on video by a Miami Herald security camera, that Eugene might have been high on so-called “bath salts,” which have been blamed for psychotic behavior in other cases around the country.

“The department has ruled out the most common drugs found in ‘bath salts,’ a press release from the ME’s office said.

The toxicology testing “has identified the active components of marijuana,” the release said. “The laboratory has tested for but not detected any other street drugs, alcohol or prescription drugs, or any adulterants found in street drugs. This includes cocaine, LSD, amphetamines (Extasy, Meth and others), phencyclidine (PCP or Angel Dust), heroin, oxycodone, Xanax, synthetic marijuana (Spice), and many other similar compounds.”

The ME’s office said it sought the help of an outside forensic toxicology lab, “which has confirmed the absence of ‘bath salts,’ synthetic marijuana and LSD.” The ME’s office said that “within the limits of current technology by both laboratories,” marijuana was the only drug found in Eugene’s system.

Eugene’s victim, Ronald Poppo, is recovering at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.
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Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/27/2871098/mes-report-eugene-had-no-drugs.html#storylink=cpy
 
Well there you go!

Now that the truth is out, will the "bath salts" moral panic come back into its bottle? Ha, not a chance.

I'm waiting to see how widely this will get covered by the media. So far I see that NPR has reported on the story.
 
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Yeah this isn't going to make a difference to the whole moral panic, cat's out of the bag there.

But it's nice to have the facts at least, maybe some people will pay attention.
 
He had marijuana in his system? Refer Madness was right! 8o

But in all seriousness I'm glad that he didn't have bath salts in his system; however, I doubt that this news, even if widely reported, will do much to stop the hysteria.
 
lol, what a month...

dead man ate part of homeless man's face
man skinned himself alive
man cut open his abdomen and threw his intestines at police
man broke several of two cops' bones.
man tried to eat a dog who died
ny woman wants to go cannibal
woman urinated on 30 million dollar painting
man bashed eldery woman with shovel then claimed he's an alien who can talk to jesus
woman climbed electricity pylon after smoking skunk for 4 hours
man makes meth inside walmart

What did I miss?
 
lol...

Lawyer spends $19,000 dollars at strip club and blames xanax being spiked in his drink(s).
Mom Gouged Son's Eyes Out In Drug-Fueled Ritual, Mexico
Man High on Bath Salts Kills (Possibly Rapes) Goat, Dresses in Women's Undergarments
Man on Cloud 9, Four Loko tries to bite officer's hand off
Louisiana Man Bites Off Large Chunk Of Victim's Face
'It is the evilest thing imaginable': Bath salts addict filmed overdosing describes terror of taking drug blamed for Miami cannibal attack
Knife-wielding mother high on butane gas threatened to cut her own daughter, 14, ‘like a fish’ but collapses and dies in the violent row
Police: Pennsylvania mom injected 14-year-old daughter with heroin about 200 times
Man stoned on bath salts sends 2 cops to hospital
Naples Man Threatens to Bite Faces Off "Like Guy In Miami," Rape Everyone's Wives
Father, son charged after drug-fuelled nude street brawl in Alaska
 
I said this was bullshit from the very beginning. It's our sensationalist media that takes anything with the flimsiest of "evidence" and runs with it.
Remember:
LSD making you legally insane after 7 times
LSD breaking up chromosomes
LSD in spinal fluid
Etc.
MJ causes cancer, joint equals a pack of cigs, 10-20 times more potent, damaging brain cells, reefer madness. Etc.
MDMA burning "holes" in the brain, etc.
Meth "labs" every corner
Heroin addicted kids
PCP killers
Mushrooms making your brain "bleed"
"crack babies"
All of this, with the help of the media is used to outlaw these drugs. (The lone exception is MDMA, which the media caught onto after it was outlawed)

The list goes on and on. Create fake stories, making up evidence, etc. Scaring people is what sells. And that should be enough of a reason to keep you skeptical of any story that is "unbelievable." Because, it usually is.
 
The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
by Edward M. Brecher and the Editors of Consumer Reports Magazine, 1972
44. How to launch a nationwide drug menace

Go read it.

This is fucking textbook stuff happening today.
 
Good news that "bath salts" weren't the cause of this. The story about the "face eating guy on bath salts" was ALL OVER my local news for WEEKS. The story about him not being on bath salts? I can't find it anywhere in the local news. This is so ridiculous.
My coworkers were talking about "bath salts" and so I was trying to explain it to them. I bet they will never actually know that the bath salts were not the cause. They will always think the "bath salts" are bad. Gahh!
 
^ It's the top most read story on one of our most popular news websites atm -

Don't blame the bath salts. Face-eater not on drug

Putting to bed the theory a global zombie apocalypse had been triggered by bath salts, the man who chewed another man's face off on a Miami overpass was not under the influence of the now-notorious synthetic drug.

Toxicology reports confirm 31-year-old Rudy Eugene only had marijuana in his system. No traces of any other street drugs, alchohol or prescription drugs were found.

“The department has ruled out the most common drugs found in bath salts," the Medical Examiner's office said.

On May 26, Eugene was caught on security cameras in broad daylight devouring homeless 65-year-old Ronald Poppo's face. He was shot and killed by police when he refused to stop.

It's not clear what led to the attack. Eugene's friends and family have said he was religious, not violent and that he didn't drink or do hard drugs.

Poppo has undergone several surgeries to restructure his face and is recovering in hospital.

The psychotic attack was the first in a series of cannibalism-related crimes to hit the media.

Now it appears our worst nightmare has been confirmed - "zombies" don't need any drugs to eat humans.

911 call released of Miami cannibal attack http://video.news.com.au/2242923518/911-call-released-of-Miami-cannibal-attack

http://www.news.com.au/world/no-bat...-reports-confirm/story-e6frfkyi-1226410710814
 
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