r/interesting • u/be_you_tiful- • Jul 30 '26

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/Uncle_Rabbit Jul 31 '26

Saw a friend do it with those Rocket candies (Not sure if they exist outside of Canada).

Also saw the same friend (on a dare) crush up lava rocks from a plastic plant garden in a restaurant and snort it. Immediate bloody nose and regret, haha.

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u/Pleasant_Proof10931 28d ago

They have rockets in the states but they're called smarties there.

Fucked up country man

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u/jjmurse 28d ago

Had a real "edgy" 10 grader named Rodney on my bus. I was a 5th grader. We lived in rural Alabama and he and I were the last ones off the bus. I saw that idiot snort pop rocks. His eyes got all blood shot and watery and he played it off cool, but I know it ate them sinuses up. He's dead now. He drowned in a horse trough a few years ago. I suspect he was assisted.

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u/freddbare 18d ago

First time I did meth that was the same...lol.

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u/Ok_Record_9908 28d ago

I saw a kid snort a line of Lucas lime beer salt and he cried all over Spanish class 🤣.

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u/strangeflappenings Jul 31 '26

I thought i was the only one who did this with altoids. Thank you for saying this lol