Time Magazine has called it “the most horrible drug in the world,” and last month, it hit the US. Because seriously, why would you take a drug that rots your flesh, bones, and brain?!
Hank Green discusses the science behind the street drug ‘Krokodil’, & fake THC.
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Sources for this episode:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/26/heroin-krokodil-flesh-rotting-arrives-us-arizona/2879817/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desomorphine
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/acs-tut100213.php
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ac4024704
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/35444158#.UlNi3iR56Ts