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Rudy Eugene—the Florida man who was suspected to be high on "bath salts" last month when he was shot and killed by police after refusing to stop chewing a homeless man's face—was not on "bath salts" after all.

According to the Miami-Dade County medical examiner's office, toxicology tests performed on Eugene found marijuana in his system, but no street drugs, prescription drugs or alcohol. Eugene also tested negative for adulterants commonly mixed with street drugs.

"The department has also sought the assistance of an outside forensic toxicology reference laboratory, which has confirmed the absence of 'bath salts,' synthetic marijuana and LSD," the medical examiner said.

But that doesn't necessarily mean cannabis was the cause of cannibalism.

"There is an almost infinite number of chemical substances out there that can trigger unusual behavior," Bruce Goldberger, professor and director of toxicology at the University of Florida, told the Associated Press. "There are many of these synthetic drugs that we currently don't have the methodology to test on, and that is not the fault of the toxicology lab. The challenge today for the toxicology lab is to stay on top of these new chemicals and develop methodologies for them, but it's very difficult and very expensive. There is no one test or combination of tests that can detect every possible substance out there."



Ronald Poppo, the 65-year-old homeless victim, remains hospitalized following the May 26 attack

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/bath...49305.html

Still think pot is "harmless" rv :hilarious:

Sorry, had to. :biggrin:

talk about your munchies

Considering methylenedioxypyrovalerone isn't even testable from what Ive heard, I don't think that matters. And even if testable, not all bath salts consist of methylenedioxypyrovalerone as the main ingredient. They don't even know for sure what chemicals are in this other than the one listed seems to be the most popular. However, the bath salts made by on the streets normally don't contain methylenedioxypyrovalerone. So........ this doesn't mean this guy was not on bath salts.

Bath salts don't come in "street form", lol...we have coke, crack, meth, pills, and many other, better drugs than that.

vundy33 Wrote:Bath salts don't come in "street form", lol...we have coke, crack, meth, pills, and many other, better drugs than that.

All bath salts I guess would be considered street form.

Most are coming from Florida, they also ship via FedEx or UPS. My buddy who is a driver for FedEx was telling me Saturday about how much is being sent that way. The DEA is up there constantly, and they look for hand written packages from Florida.

I guess they are shipping them big time into Morehead and Huntington.

Apparently they use the Express shipping since it goes straight to a plane, flies up here, lands in Huntington, and is immediately divided up to the drivers and delivered. He said they package it so well that nothing shakes and rattles. First time when they had found a package and the DEA came in and started busting it open he thought it was pop rocks, the candy stuff. Said the packaging looked just like that and so did the bath salts.

I don't know much about the stuff, I guess no one does really. I just know a little about it from having patients in the ER who state they are on the stuff. I know there is no way for us to test for it 100% like other drugs so we have to take their word for it, or if we assume they may be on them. Not much to do really other than treat any symptoms that appear and wait for them to settle down. Usually by the time they get to us though, they aren't trying to gnaw anyone's face off.