Pakistan’s latest drug addiction may be hard to believe, but it’s all the rage these days, especially in KP.
Drug addictions are smoking dead scorpions to get a new type of high. A dead scorpion is crushed until it becomes powdered and then mixed with drugs like hash or tobacco.
Although smoking scorpions is very dangerous and does more harm than other drugs. According to experts, it can have a direct impact on the human brain and cause short and even long-term memory loss.
The scorpion is killed and then dried in sunlight or burnt to death on the stove. It is crushed afterward and mixed with other drugs. The high from a scorpion can last up to 10 hours.
Scorpions are also used in medicines for life-threatening diseases like AIDS and cancer. Unless regulated, scorpion addiction is also a threat to the availability of the specie for medical purposes.
As of now, 1,750 species of scorpion have been discovered among which 25 are fatal to a human.
