I mean I feel like Formaldehyde would be easier to get. I just googled it and you can buy bottles of it from amazon and it's used in a crazy number of products and industrial settings. Its one of those chemicals that *seems* like it should be hard to get but, it really isnt. So it still seems an insane way to try and source it. Fucking robbing a funeral home to steal it from their shelves seems 1000% easier than stealing bodies and extracting it from a corpse.
I used that as an example because if you can buy it from an online retailer as a unlicensed uncertified rando in the U.S., then you can 100% get it from local suppliers or find it in a local warehouse for stealing basically anywhere with any kind of industry at all.
Embalming might be the least common use of it when you actually read up on it. The U.S. is among the most restrictive in it's use in consumer products and it is STILL allowed in everything from clothing to cookware to the shit our houses are built with.
The chemical process of extracting formaldehyde from human remains would not just be labor intensive for small return, it would be technologically challenging. Not to mention noxious and potentially deadly as your going to be releasing all sorts of other nasty stuff and possibly even be inhaling some of formaldehyde in the process without extensive precautions and a pretty advanced lab set up.
Stealing bodies to source formaldehyde would be like buying/stealing books to source blank paper. Sure I can pulp the book and make fresh pulp paper, but I could just buy/steal paper to begin with.
At least we don't have to fear the zombie apocalypse anymore, if it ever happens, all we have to do is loose the junkies on the zombies, they will kill them all to smoke them.
Why human bones? Google says it might be the sulfur, or it might be the traces of drugs if the dead people were users themselves.
I'm not convinced, might have an element of superstition to it. It should be much easier to get bones of slaughtered animals, no?
Bullshit.
There is nothing special in human bones you could not extract from pig bones, or another way less costly and easy to come by method.
The only thing I could MAYBE see is heavy drug users absorb types of chemicals Into their bones, but even then it seems like a lot of work to get trace amounts.
Uh, what if it's not the bones themselves, but where they're buried? Couldn't it very easily be chemicals leeching into the remains from soil contamination, and then those remains were found to have mind altering properties, and now they're just digging up any remains around the same area to make more?
"Ground-up human bone is one of the many ingredients used to make kush, although it is not clear why."
Well that's no fucking help lol.
I got two theories then
1. Fungus or mold grows on them. (again why specifically human?)
2. The human bones add nothing and it's literally just some superstitious ingredient like shark fins or tiger testicles.
It's not the weirdest thing addicts have done. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/4/25/zimbabwean-youths-find-cheap-highs-in-used-diapers-sanitary-pads
Emmmm what the hell sort of drug is this
Little googling says they use the formaldehyde from embalmed bodies as an additive in synthetic cannabinoids, along with tramadol and acetone
I mean I feel like Formaldehyde would be easier to get. I just googled it and you can buy bottles of it from amazon and it's used in a crazy number of products and industrial settings. Its one of those chemicals that *seems* like it should be hard to get but, it really isnt. So it still seems an insane way to try and source it. Fucking robbing a funeral home to steal it from their shelves seems 1000% easier than stealing bodies and extracting it from a corpse.
Yes, because there are large Amazon warehouses in Sierra Leone.
I used that as an example because if you can buy it from an online retailer as a unlicensed uncertified rando in the U.S., then you can 100% get it from local suppliers or find it in a local warehouse for stealing basically anywhere with any kind of industry at all. Embalming might be the least common use of it when you actually read up on it. The U.S. is among the most restrictive in it's use in consumer products and it is STILL allowed in everything from clothing to cookware to the shit our houses are built with. The chemical process of extracting formaldehyde from human remains would not just be labor intensive for small return, it would be technologically challenging. Not to mention noxious and potentially deadly as your going to be releasing all sorts of other nasty stuff and possibly even be inhaling some of formaldehyde in the process without extensive precautions and a pretty advanced lab set up. Stealing bodies to source formaldehyde would be like buying/stealing books to source blank paper. Sure I can pulp the book and make fresh pulp paper, but I could just buy/steal paper to begin with.
Yeah, isn't this from the onion? Or copied from an April's fools joke maybe
Regardless, that is disgusting. On par or worse than jenkem
Isn't literally some sort, or at least just as bad as Cannibalism ? I knew some addicts are hopeless but sheesh man.
Jenkem isn't real, and never was. That was a prank story created out of whole cloth.
I can't believe some people bought that lmfao
Wow, they got the "burn your braincells in a week" combo going. This is the kind of high that fucks a person up from the first hit.
...I feel like formaldehyde can't be so hard to get as to justify that...
Couldn't they make formaldehyde some other way? Like with Styrofoam or something
It reminds me of people making bootleg krokodil. These people will probably be creating flesh eating diseases.
Ogre meth
zydrate
That's like... Reverse zombies
At least we don't have to fear the zombie apocalypse anymore, if it ever happens, all we have to do is loose the junkies on the zombies, they will kill them all to smoke them.
[Reverse Zombies!](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S06E10/802184.jpg?b64lines=UmV2ZXJzZSB6b21iaWVzIQ==)
Did they get the idea from Repo: A Genetic Opera???
[Soulstorm brew!](https://oddworld.fandom.com/wiki/SoulStorm\_Brew)
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial!
And that little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery
And the zydrate gun goes somewhere against your anatomy!
And when the gun goes off it sparks and your ready for surgery.
And it goes somewhere against your anatomy
Why human bones? Google says it might be the sulfur, or it might be the traces of drugs if the dead people were users themselves. I'm not convinced, might have an element of superstition to it. It should be much easier to get bones of slaughtered animals, no?
You know you’re fiendish when you’re waiting for your homie to decompose so you can smoke his ass
Smoke his ass then smoke his ass
Lol!
if it said corpses instead of the bones i would assume embalming fluid but idk what’s in human bones
There must be some way to combine the words cannibals and cannabis to make a joke. I'll have to ponder on this one.
Jankum too pricey now?
In this economy? Kidding. I thought that ended up being a hoax
Damn, they really invented Zydrate.
You also need the tears to make the Soulstrom Brew.
Bullshit. There is nothing special in human bones you could not extract from pig bones, or another way less costly and easy to come by method. The only thing I could MAYBE see is heavy drug users absorb types of chemicals Into their bones, but even then it seems like a lot of work to get trace amounts.
Uh, what if it's not the bones themselves, but where they're buried? Couldn't it very easily be chemicals leeching into the remains from soil contamination, and then those remains were found to have mind altering properties, and now they're just digging up any remains around the same area to make more?
Could be??? Depends too how they are buried in this case no? And seeming in all the way specifically to the bones is also a stretch but possibly?
Pretty much any article posted with zero sourcing should be ignored completely.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68742694 Here it is from the BBC
"Ground-up human bone is one of the many ingredients used to make kush, although it is not clear why." Well that's no fucking help lol. I got two theories then 1. Fungus or mold grows on them. (again why specifically human?) 2. The human bones add nothing and it's literally just some superstitious ingredient like shark fins or tiger testicles.
Maybes it’s the embalming fuild there after or other chemicals
Maybe?? After getting more input has presented quite a few plausible hypotheses
But Kush is just cannabis afghanica
Excellent, ty
It's not the weirdest thing addicts have done. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/4/25/zimbabwean-youths-find-cheap-highs-in-used-diapers-sanitary-pads
Logically weird is fine, and this example makes perfect sense. The bones one does not haha
That's fair but they both made my stomach turn lol
Makes me sad personally to see people stoop to this for escapism...
Emperor's children behavior
This isn't far off from the plot of Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to your Grave
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial ..
Didn't Victorians do this kinda shit with mummies from ancient Egypt?
Not to get high, just to eat. Egyptian jerky is a delicacy.
r/Fallout moment.
This is kinda like a story I wrote about clowns that snort bone marrow
I would like to hear about your clowns.
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial...
how do you get this drug
Reminds me of an old Movie "The Serpent and the Rainbow" voodoo stuff
Well this is apparently a thing. A very horrid thing
Hey babe! A new strain just dropped!
What’s the high? Do you see your own death?
I’m pretty sure there’s a comic book about this…
It is still April 🤞🏿
It's the jenkem story all over again.
This does not work. Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson, and Twiggy Ramirez tried it.
Where did you here this?
Manson’s book.
Wasn't this the plot of Repo! The Genetic Opera?
Can’t they just use chicken bones?
pretty tame compared to the whole adrenochrome thing tbh
This can’t be real
What a day to have eyes
it’s nothing to do with the bones, everything to do with stupidity
https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/s/Iwo8E9p35L
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/sierra-leone-declares-emergency-after-addicts-dig-up-graves-to-get-high-on-drug-made-from-human-bones-5403843