{"id":1046,"date":"2012-06-02T07:50:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T07:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=16553"},"modified":"2012-06-02T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T07:50:36","slug":"marijuana-prohibition-causing-zombie-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/marijuana-prohibition-causing-zombie-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Prohibition Causing Zombie Apocalypse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/marijuana-prohibition-causing-zombie-apocalypse\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/zombies.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"zombies\" title=\"zombies\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-16554\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/marijuana-prohibition-causing-zombie-apocalypse\/attachment\/zombies\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16554\" title=\"zombies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/zombies-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Zombies have a special place in our hearts, even as they are without that key blood pumping organ.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001681\/\" target=\"_blank\"> George A. Romero<\/a> took our fear of the undead to new heights in the 1968 classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063350\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 Since then countless zombie movies and now video games have tried to quench our blood thirst.\u00a0 However, sci-fi fans and others who refuse to lay on a silver platter and become zombie lunch have prepped for the \u201cZombie Apocalypse\u201d, a real life scenario where the strong survive and the weak are turned, dragging their bones around seeking flesh. \u00a0In a world with a heightened fear of pollution, radiation, and chemistry sets gone wrong, it seems more and more people are fearing a world where our infrastructure breaks down, and we are left to our own will to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Preppers for the Zombie Apocalypse may not seem so ridiculous all of a sudden. \u00a0Cannibalism was all the rave this week, as a man in Florida attacked a homeless man by eating away at his face.\u00a0 When told by a policeman to stop, Rudy Eugene was unresponsive and reports say he only growled back at the officer.\u00a0 He continued to tear away at the man\u2019s face and unfortunately was shot.\u00a0 The victim was 65-year-old Ronald Poppo, who remains hospitalized with\u00a0 most of his face torn away.<\/p>\n<p>Many are reporting that Rudy Eugene had used \u201cbath salts\u201d that are actually geared at achieving an LSD like high.\u00a0 The problem highlights the constant struggle to regulate and eliminate the synthetic drug market.\u00a0 Products such as K2 and Spice, which mimic THC\u2019s effects have been outlawed on both state and federal levels.\u00a0 However, scientists fear that the battle is a losing one because the makers of these products will always find a way to create slightly different chemical compounds that circumvent the law.\u00a0 Government officials will now likely have the new LSD synthetics on their radar, but ultimately it may prove to be too late.\u00a0 Synthetic marijuana products have been linked to strokes, seizures, and other health complications especially in teens.\u00a0 Our first high profile case of synthetic LSD may have ushered in the undead revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Although the case is isolated so far, it sheds light on the larger and more frustrating picture.\u00a0 Regulation is needed and the black market for quasi legal drugs has clearly taken a huge step.\u00a0 It started with our country\u2019s failure to regulate marijuana and the idea that synthetics without any safety information available could be created.\u00a0 Zombie movies and popular video games such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_zombie_video_games\" target=\"_blank\">Resident Evil (also a movie series), Left For Dead, House of the Dead, Dead Rising, Call of Duty Black Ops\/World at War<\/a>, may captivate our imagination, but our heads is where this phenomenon should stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/zombies.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"zombies\" title=\"zombies\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-16554\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/marijuana-prohibition-causing-zombie-apocalypse\/attachment\/zombies\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16554\" title=\"zombies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/zombies-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Zombies have a special place in our hearts, even as they are without that key blood pumping organ.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001681\/\" target=\"_blank\"> George A. Romero<\/a> took our fear of the undead to new heights in the 1968 classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063350\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 Since then countless zombie movies and now video games have tried to quench our blood thirst.\u00a0 However, sci-fi fans and others who refuse to lay on a silver platter and become zombie lunch have prepped for the \u201cZombie Apocalypse\u201d, a real life scenario where the strong survive and the weak are turned, dragging their bones around seeking flesh. \u00a0In a world with a heightened fear of pollution, radiation, and chemistry sets gone wrong, it seems more and more people are fearing a world where our infrastructure breaks down, and we are left to our own will to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Preppers for the Zombie Apocalypse may not seem so ridiculous all of a sudden. \u00a0Cannibalism was all the rave this week, as a man in Florida attacked a homeless man by eating away at his face.\u00a0 When told by a policeman to stop, Rudy Eugene was unresponsive and reports say he only growled back at the officer.\u00a0 He continued to tear away at the man\u2019s face and unfortunately was shot.\u00a0 The victim was 65-year-old Ronald Poppo, who remains hospitalized with\u00a0 most of his face torn away.<\/p>\n<p>Many are reporting that Rudy Eugene had used \u201cbath salts\u201d that are actually geared at achieving an LSD like high.\u00a0 The problem highlights the constant struggle to regulate and eliminate the synthetic drug market.\u00a0 Products such as K2 and Spice, which mimic THC\u2019s effects have been outlawed on both state and federal levels.\u00a0 However, scientists fear that the battle is a losing one because the makers of these products will always find a way to create slightly different chemical compounds that circumvent the law.\u00a0 Government officials will now likely have the new LSD synthetics on their radar, but ultimately it may prove to be too late.\u00a0 Synthetic marijuana products have been linked to strokes, seizures, and other health complications especially in teens.\u00a0 Our first high profile case of synthetic LSD may have ushered in the undead revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Although the case is isolated so far, it sheds light on the larger and more frustrating picture.\u00a0 Regulation is needed and the black market for quasi legal drugs has clearly taken a huge step.\u00a0 It started with our country\u2019s failure to regulate marijuana and the idea that synthetics without any safety information available could be created.\u00a0 Zombie movies and popular video games such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_zombie_video_games\" target=\"_blank\">Resident Evil (also a movie series), Left For Dead, House of the Dead, Dead Rising, Call of Duty Black Ops\/World at War<\/a>, may captivate our imagination, but our heads is where this phenomenon should stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[731,982,983,52,984,985,986,29,987,77,9,51,988,70,90,989,735,990,1,3,991,992,18,61,993,994],"tags":[3304,3553,3554,2632,3555,3556,3557,2626,3558,2655,2631,3559,5,2668,3560,3308,3561,3562,3563,2622,6,3564,3565],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}