FLAKKA

It’s time to start talking about flakka. Flakka is an increasingly popular synthetic designer drug. Also known as “gravel” and readily available for $5 or less a vial, it’s a growing problem for police after bursting on the scene in 2013. Like the drug known as bath salts from a couple of years ago, flakka makes people do crazy things. For example:
– One man ran naked through a Florida neighborhood, tried to have sex with a tree and told police he was the mythical god Thor.
– A man ran nude down a busy city street in broad daylight, convinced a pack of German shepherds was pursuing him.
– Two men tried – separately and at different times – to break into the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. They said they thought people were chasing them; one wound up impaled on a fence.
– A Palm Beach County SWAT team had to talk Leroy Strothers, 33, off a rooftop in January. He had fired a shot from up there, claiming he was being followed by a Haitian gang that had threatened his family.
– Police found an unattended baby in front of an office building after the child’s mother got high on flakka and blacked out.
According to Don Maines, a drug treatment counselor with the Broward Sheriff’s Office in Fort Lauderdale, the drug is cheap, and it gives the user heightened awareness. They become more sensitive to touch. “But then the paranoia sets in.”
* I hate these incomplete news stories. Was that first man the mythical god Thor or not?
* I’ve seen Thor in a couple movies now, and he never once made moves on a tree.
* Sex with a tree must be confusing when you’re both bringing the wood.
* Ironically, my paranoia is setting in about THIS.
* How about a drug that makes everybody nicer and more productive?
* I blame Huey Lewis. He was the one singing, “I want a new drug.”
* This isn’t like a shot of booze. With this you just imagine the chaser and it’s chasing after you.