Rodney King Autopsy: PCP, Cocaine, Marijuana And Alcohol Contributed To Drowning

[Green_Lantern]

Source: Huffington Post

Rodney King was under the influence of cocaine, PCP, marijuana and alcohol at the time of death, according to the death report released Thursday, TMZ reports.

The cause of death is listed as accidental drowning -- but the drugs were contributing factors.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/23/rodney-king-autopsy-pcp-cocaine-marijuana-alcohol-drowning_n_1825263.html

[AngryAmish]

1. I often ask what sort of person would voluntarily take PCP

Evidently, it is the sort of person who would drown in a backyard pool after taking every drug.

Idiot.

[Trillo]

11. One of the reasons patients want 'medical' marijuana is to insure it's not PCP 'enhanced'

or otherwise altered from its natural, organic state. Over the drug-war years I've read in AmerPravda papers that it's quite common for street-sourced marijuana to be adulterated with all kinds of synthetic crap.

[AngryAmish]

13. I had never thought of that

good point - and you would have someone to hold responsible if the MM grower was a legitimate business

[RitchieRich]

16. reality time

Um, that NEVER happens except on after school specials.

[Ashgrey77]

20. Sorry but that's bs,

The reason most people want medical grade cannabis is because it's grown in state and you know exactly what they used to grow it. And the money isn't going to Mexico or South america, it stays in state. We used to call it "laced" if it had anything like pcp, speed, crack, or coke in it. And you knew it had it in it because it costs more. They aren't going to sell you a designer drug free with your weed.

[Trillo]

27. "Designer Drug"? Hardly.

I'm sure I read, back in the '70-80s newspapers that it was a horse tranquilizer, and wikipedia seems to confirm that. It probably depends upon how you define "designer drug".

That's why some people don't want to buy medical marijuana "off the street". Some idiot with a small lab can spray something on otherwise unmarketable weed to make stuff that'll "blow your mind", and probably make a bundle of money in the process, attracting a criminal element. I'd bet instructions to make PCP are probably widely available, given that it was patented and is a Corporate Pharmaceutical from way back in 1926.

Remember Paraquat? Our government was alleged to have sprayed it on marijuana crops, allegedly to kill it, but did it work out that way, or did some of the sprayed cannabis still make it to market, with this wonderfully toxic-to-human herbicide on it? Implicated in Parkinsons, according to Wikipedia.

[bitchkitty]

29. Don't believe everything you read.

I haven't lived everywhere, so I can't say with 100% certainty, but my experience is quite different. I am a medical marijuana patient now, but have smoked weed for 40 years. Never in all that time, buying weed from multiple sources, including the street, did I get anything that had been adulterated with PHP or any other such substance.

Now, I've bought nickel bags of Italian seasoning, but I think that's a different issue...

[jtuck004]

2. He was the subject of a lot of concentrated hate. Self-medicating maybe, trying to dull that? n/t

[AndyTiedye]

4. Probably in a Lot of Pain Too

Does anyone ever really recover from a beating like that?

[cstanleytech]

8. Or the other possability is he could have just been doing what he did before and afer the beating.

Doesnt excuse the cops for what they did to him decades ago though.

[Freddie Stubbs]

19. He was messed up years before he became famous

He served time in prison for armed robbery prior to the 1991 incident.

[RZM]

31. I believe he was under the influence the night of the beating

So he has was already no stranger to intoxication.

[jtuck004]

32. Probably no stranger to racism, either. But being beaten mercilessly to a bloody

pulp in the name of "law enforcement" probably didn't make things easier.

But as they said in the Boston public school, "their skins are thicker, you know". That was how they justified the vinegar they soaked the switches in.

[Bjorn Against]

3. Do people actually still use PCP?

I have not heard of that drug in a long time.

[Maine-ah]

10. he probably laced his mj with it.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. You can still find it but most people would rather have LSD...

...it makes for a great skin to skin sweaty time...

[RKP5637]

5. And sometimes I worry because I think I drink too much coffee ... n/t

[Animal Chin]

6. Very sad

Addiction is a terrible disease.

[Auggie]

9. +1. And welcome to D.U.

[Trillo]

7. No mention of hydrocarbons and/or pesticides, and other neurotoxins?

Seems a bit biased.

[Iggo]

12. Some people try and try to quit and it just doesn't take.

Poor Rodney.

R.I.P.

[SoapBox]

14. Was I supposed to be surprised?

...sorry I'm not.

The history was just not a good one for his life.

[ZombieHorde]

15. That man knew how to party. nt

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

17. So, he is a typical human living in our strange culture.

Now lets pick him apart for not being perfect, or thinking, or acting like us, or me.

[dhill926]

28. you said it.....

many are like this. just a sad outcome......

[crimson77]

18. I know nothing about drugs, but wouldn't the coke,pot and booze all offset eachother?

[slackmaster]

21. No. Mixing a bunch of different drugs can produce unexpected synergistic effects.

Drugs are bad, mmmmmkay?

[Ashgrey77]

22. Not really, they still all do the same thing,

you just end up being fucked up on all of them instead of just say alcohol. The only thing I've ever noticed is that "stronger" drugs will overshadow the weaker ones, but your still affected by them individually. They don't mix and change in your system into something new and unexpected. I'm speaking of illegal narcotics, not pharmaceuticals just to be clear.

[slackmaster]

24. I take it you've never been married to someone who drank alcohol while taking Prozac

[Ashgrey77]

26. That's a bit different, and no not married,

but close and it was paxil instead of prozac.

[Iggo]

33. No. Pot is not the antidote to coke, and neither is coke the antidote to pot.

One doesn't make the other go away.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. I find it funny how they ALWAYS claim people are full of stuff....

...the weed could have been in a hair sample from weeks ago, the PCP could have been traces in the liver and the cocaine could have been byproducts in the blood...

ALCOHOL is probably the main reason here.

The LEGAL way to drown in a pool.

[MrSlayer]

30. Still with the PCP. What an idiot.

The Sherm is why the cops couldn't take him down with tasers and nightsticks on the night of the infamous beating.

[TheManInTheMac]

34. Taking all that stuff and then playing a game of "Marco Polo" is probably not a good idea.

But Rodney King never was known for his good judgement.

[Judi Lynn]

35. It's astonishing to learn there are STILL people who don't believe they've taken enough shots at him

and need to take even another opportunity to tell anyone who pays attention to them how much hatred they bear for people of other colors.

Sloppy, conspicuous advertising of primitive sensibilities, heading into their future with no intention of overcoming their super low ability to rise above the race hatred taught to them by their seedy parents, they never miss a chance to take dirty, spiteful shots any time they can, as "social critics" of the way a person of color meets circumstances, or met them, in his or her life. Rigid, self-absorbed, they just can't grasp the fact that they are surrounded by people facing hardships which would have leveled them early in the game, and the fact they have been so lucky to have been insulated by the advantage they inherited at birth, of being NOTHING more than "white".

Ignore all the suffering of others, then mock them when they struggle while trying to survive. Not so bright, and it shows at every turn. You can't hide it.