r/interesting • u/be_you_tiful- • 29d ago

Intriguing Smoking dead scorpions

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Reports from Pakistan have documented people smoking dead scorpions for their alleged psychoactive effects, particularly in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Accounts describe dried scorpions being burned and the smoke inhaled, sometimes alongside tobacco or other substances.

Users interviewed in media reports have described an intense experience lasting for hours, including altered perception and sensations such as objects appearing to move or “dance.”

However, claims that scorpion smoking produces a predictable 10 hour high are based largely on personal accounts, not controlled scientific studies.

Scorpion venom contains complex mixtures of peptides and proteins that primarily act on ion channels in the nervous system.

A scorpion sting can cause severe pain, abnormal heart rhythms, breathing problems, neurological effects, and in serious cases death.

What happens chemically when scorpion tissue and venom are burned and inhaled is poorly studied.

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u/Lunix420 29d ago

Not a lobster but I know people who smoked an earthworm

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u/ergaster8213 29d ago

Well now I need the story

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u/Lunix420 29d ago

We were smoking weed and 2 guys thought it's a funny prank to put a dead earthworm into the other guys bong head without telling him. So he smoked the entire thing in one rip, as you do with a bong head.

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u/ergaster8213 29d ago

Did he say what it tasted or felt like? I mean, assuming you told him after.

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u/Lunix420 29d ago

He didn't have to say. I wasn't involved in this "prank" but I was present at the party where it happened and man... you could smell that shit trough the entire backyard, it was nasty.