Drug War's Finest: Krokodil - Cheap, Tainted Desomorphine Turning Junkies Into Zombies

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Jul 23, 2011

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Krokodil: The drug that eats junkies
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/krokodil-the-drug-that-eats-ju...

Krokodil Drug Killing Russian Teenagers
http://morrisonworldnews.com/?p=51494

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[DjMindz]

that's crazy i'm glad i only smoke weed

[mutageno]

awesome how the governments rather have this than marijuana

[mzzzhedison]

@DjMindz Why do you say that? You're implying that weed smokers are trying to get high off of other things. I'm sure you're one of those people who say Weed is not a drug, but a natural grown supplement grown from the ground and has no deadly effects. So, you're fucking admitting that you don't only want to smoke weed, you're looking for the best thing out there to get you high. Fucking dumb-ass marijuana junkies.

[OGamnesia]

@revisionhistorica they used heroin :) they just had find ways to make the money (stealing, dealing ect)

[OrangeJews1138]

@mutageno

Wut? Both are illegal.

[piero7984]

@andrewldexter in germany we have system like dat.....  we have even open rooms in the city where u can get clean needles and wher u can use heroin .. so the people not out on the street doin it in front of kids

[roguesentinel]

They have no rehabs available for these people, they are actually in a slum of the town (tonnes of people living in old abandoned buildings.

[andrewldexter]

Why don't we just get doctors to write heroin prescriptions and we give it, uncut with clean needles to the junkies for free? How would that be any worse than the situation we have now? Maybe a few more people would get high?

[revisionhistorica]

@OGamnesia ok, but what happened with people like them before krokodil was invented? that's what I meant, they had had used something else

[OGamnesia]

@revisionhistorica they used heroin before, but most people who use kroc are the ones who cannot afford heroin

[37dawe37]

Russian MotherFucker!!!

[zephyr1011]

1:39 Guy looks at camera, sprints off. "OH SHIT THEY KNOW I MAKE KROKODIL!"