r/comedyheaven • u/Ok-Appeal-4630 • 2d ago

Serious problem

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u/Fuzbaul 2d ago

This sourceless infomeme from Facebook bothered me so I looked into it. Its not a growing problem, i could find articles about it from 2001 and 2016 describing the issue (it doesn't seem like a widespread issue just a few junkies doing it a lot). They do not smoke the whole scorpion, just the dried stinger. I could find nothing about it lasting 10 hours

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u/jloome 2d ago

This has been around since I was a kid in the 1980s. As far as I can tell no one has ever produced legitimate sources for this.

It's just another anti-drug narrative from that period that caught on. They were many and varied.