Embalming fluid-soaked marijuana: new high or new guise for PCP?
A growing trend of smoking marijuana soaked in what is purported to be embalming fluid has been reported in the literature since the mid-1980s. This article describes several cases of intoxication, gives regional epidemiological data on this phenomenon, and includes current nomenclature. The authors also analyze a sample of fluid said to be embalming fluid and discover PCP (phencyclidine) and multiple congeners and by-products of PCP manufacture. The implications of this finding are discussed, and the hypothesis that most embalming fluid-soaked marijuana likely contains PCP is considered.
Holland
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Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, Bellevue Hospital, and New York University School of Medicine, New York 10016, USA.
Nelson
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Ravikumar
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Elwood
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D000328:Adult; D002188:Cannabis; D004615:Embalming; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008385:Marijuana Smoking; D010622:Phencyclidine; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders
D010622:Phencyclidine