Rudy Eugene, Fla. "face-chewer," had no bath salts, just marijuana in his system

By: Crimesider Staff
Topics: Daily Blotter

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Rudy Eugene in an undated mug shot

/ Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner

(CBS) MIAMI - Rudy Eugene, the man who ate the face off a homeless man he attacked along the MacArthur Causeway, was not high on bath salts or any other exotic street drug at the time of the attack, according to a report released Wednesday by Miami-Dade Medical Examiner Dr. Bruce Hyma.

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CBS Miami reports that the toxicology report found marijuana in Eugene's system, but no evidence of any other street drugs, alcohol or prescription drugs, or any adulterants found in street drugs. That includes cocaine, LSD, amphetamines (Ecstasy, Meth and others), phencyclidine (PCP or Angel Dust), heroin, oxycodone, Xanax, synthetic marijuana (Spice), and many other similar compounds.

Hyma's office also specifically ruled out bath salts, a class of synthetic drugs that have been known to cause bizarre behavior and overheating of people who use them, two things that made some believe Eugene's cannibalistic behavior was due to the drugs.

"The department has also sought the assistance of an outside forensic toxicology reference laboratory, which has confirmed the absence of "bath salts," synthetic marijuana and LSD," the report said.

"Within the limits of current technology by both laboratories, marijuana is the only drug identified in the body of Mr. Rudy Eugene."

Eugene was shot dead by police responding to his attack on homeless man Ronald Poppo on May 26.

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by michellebroc April 9, 2013 2:30 PM EDT: Maybe your Drs. should go back to school. Really there is no maybe about it.; Reply to this comment


by Ron_Kirkish_1 June 30, 2012 3:22 PM EDT: And, here is more truth:

UK: The Independent - Cannabis An Opology

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/cannabis-an-apology-440730.html

UK: The Independent - were we out of our minds-no-but then came skunk (Marijuana)

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/were-we-out-of-our-minds-no-but-then-came-skunk-440742.html

Aus: The Australian - Cannabis takes Toll on Aborigines

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/cannabis-takes-toll-on-aborigines/story-e6frg6nf-1225795565468

British Lung Foundation: The Impact of Cannabis on your lungs

http://www.lunguk.org/Resources/British%20Lung%20Foundation/Website/The%20impact%20of%20cannabis%20on%20your%20lungs%20-%20BLF%20report%202012.pdf

New report reveals dangerous lack of public understanding of the health risks of cannabis

http://www.lunguk.org/campaigns/media-centre/latestpressreleases/New-report-reveals-dangerous-lack+of-public-understanding-of-the-health-risks-of-cannabis

Health risks of cannabis 'underestimated', experts warn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18283689

Cannabis: One joint equivalent to 'smoking 20 cigarettes'

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/health/cannabis-one-joint-equivalent-to-smoking-20-cigarettes-7819756.html; Reply to this comment


by Ron_Kirkish_1 June 30, 2012 3:20 PM EDT: Folks,

Pro_Pot supporters want you to the uninformed to believe that marijuana is a wonderful drug.......here is the truth:

MEDPOTLIE - Dr Darryl Inaba - Haight Ashbury Clinic - San Francisco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_S._Inaba
Quotes from Darryl Inaba
Pharm.D. Director of the Haight-Ashbury Detoxification, Rehabilitation, and Aftercare Clinic / CNS / 20040115

"Marijuana is a substance that contains up to 360 active brain chemicals in every variety a person smokes.

We found that just one of those chemicals, Delta-9 THC, thought to be the most potent and causing the greatest amount of brain effects, is altered by the liver.

The liver tries to destroy this drug and get rid of it but in the process, it actually creates 60 or more new drugs that are active in the brain. So marijuana is a multitude of drugs."

"There is marijuana growing everywhere with a very high potency of 14-20% THC.

To fully understand importance of this, we must realize that people who smoked in the 1960s thought marijuana was a benign drug.

Smoking one joint today is the equivalent of smoking about 14 of those joints from the '60s. Thus, we have a much greater concern about the health consequences of today's marijuana."

"The big problem we see at the Haight-Ashbury Clinic is that the potent form of marijuana today is causing a lot more problems than we saw in the 1960s. I never treated a single self-admitted marijuana addict in the Clinic from the early '60s through the mid-'80s.

However, by the late-1980s we started seeing people coming in saying, "Help me. I want to stop smoking pot. It is causing me to have memory problems. Causing me to be too spaced out. Not to function in my work. I can't complete tasks. It's causing me to be sick in the morning and cough. I have withdrawal symptoms. I want to stop and I can't stop."

We now have at our program in San Francisco about 100 new patients every month who are in treatment specifically for marijuana addiction."; Reply to this comment

by UForgotPoland June 28, 2012 11:29 AM EDT

This is a very poorly written article, it focuses the blame on marijuana and never questions the offender's actual mental health which should be the main factor in question. If it was marijuana than it was either laced with some serious stuff or this guy had an extreme panic attack that was mainly caused by some mental disorder he had.

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by KnowerseekerReturns June 28, 2012 1:46 PM EDT: I agree.


by Ron_Kirkish_1 June 30, 2012 3:14 PM EDT: For the folks who would like to be informed to the truth about the terrible harms that marijuana abuse causes:

UK: The Independent - Cannabis An Opology

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/cannabis-an-apology-440730.html

UK: The Independent - were we out of our minds-no-but then came skunk (Marijuana)

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/were-we-out-of-our-minds-no-but-then-came-skunk-440742.html

Aus: The Australian - Cannabis takes Toll on Aborigines

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/cannabis-takes-toll-on-aborigines/story-e6frg6nf-1225795565468

British Lung Foundation: The Impact of Cannabis on your lungs

http://www.lunguk.org/Resources/British%20Lung%20Foundation/Website/The%20impact%20of%20cannabis%20on%20your%20lungs%20-%20BLF%20report%202012.pdf

New report reveals dangerous lack of public understanding of the health risks of cannabis

http://www.lunguk.org/campaigns/media-centre/latestpressreleases/New-report-reveals-dangerous-lack+of-public-understanding-of-the-health-risks-of-cannabis

Health risks of cannabis 'underestimated', experts warn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18283689

Cannabis: One joint equivalent to 'smoking 20 cigarettes'

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/health/cannabis-one-joint-equivalent-to-smoking-20-cigarettes-7819756.html


by Ron_Kirkish_1 June 30, 2012 3:18 PM EDT: and here is more truth:

MEDPOTLIE - Dr Darryl Inaba - Haight Ashbury Clinic - San Francisco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_S._Inaba
Quotes from Darryl Inaba
Pharm.D. Director of the Haight-Ashbury Detoxification, Rehabilitation, and Aftercare Clinic / CNS / 20040115

"Marijuana is a substance that contains up to 360 active brain chemicals in every variety a person smokes.

We found that just one of those chemicals, Delta-9 THC, thought to be the most potent and causing the greatest amount of brain effects, is altered by the liver.

The liver tries to destroy this drug and get rid of it but in the process, it actually creates 60 or more new drugs that are active in the brain.

So marijuana is a multitude of drugs."

"There is marijuana growing everywhere with a very high potency of 14-20% THC.

To fully understand importance of this, we must realize that people who smoked in the 1960s thought marijuana was a benign drug.

Smoking one joint today is the equivalent of smoking about 14 of those joints from the '60s.

Thus, we have a much greater concern about the health consequences of today's marijuana."

"The big problem we see at the Haight-Ashbury Clinic is that the potent form of marijuana today is causing a lot more problems than we saw in the 1960s.

I never treated a single self-admitted marijuana addict in the Clinic from the early '60s through the mid-'80s.

However, by the late-1980s we started seeing people coming in saying, "Help me.

I want to stop smoking pot.

It is causing me to have memory problems.

Causing me to be too spaced out.

Not to function in my work.

I can't complete tasks.

It's causing me to be sick in the morning and cough.

I have withdrawal symptoms.

I want to stop and I can't stop."

We now have at our program in San Francisco about 100 new patients every month who are in treatment specifically for marijuana addiction."

by stupa5 June 28, 2012 9:37 AM EDT

Give a wholw new meaning after smoking Acapulco Gold to the phrase:
" I got the Munchies"!

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by FlyingTooLow June 28, 2012 10:27 AM EDT: Although this incident is both truly bizarre and very sad, your comment is spot on.

With your sense of humor, you would no doubt enjoy the book:
Shoulda Robbed a Bank

Tales of high adventure within the 'marijuana culture.'


by Truth_Bee_Told June 28, 2012 8:32 AM EDT: No bath salts? Does this mean he really was a zombie?; Reply to this comment


by bbarnes5557 June 28, 2012 8:25 AM EDT: I was hoping this would be the case, I cant wait to snort some bath salts. I also want to inject some bubble bath and then Im all good...; Reply to this comment

by Outspoken-1 June 28, 2012 5:43 AM EDT

I know that pot can give you the munchies but damn dude go get a bag of fritos like the rest of us!

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by Well_You_Aint_Me June 28, 2012 8:39 AM EDT: A bag of Fritos and a Kik Kat or Snickers.

by nohater June 28, 2012 3:18 AM EDT

grandfather says he first saw people wig out on pot when he was at the university. he saw them also during the hippie era. he claims it didn't happen to everyone doing pot some a few.

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by Outspoken-1 June 28, 2012 5:36 AM EDT: What the hell does some a few mean?


by Well_You_Aint_Me June 28, 2012 8:41 AM EDT: D@MN Nohater, you really don't need to hit the bong while typing a sentence.

by AnnieDanny June 28, 2012 2:49 AM EDT

What about the report that he had a bunch of white pills in his stomach? I read that somewhere recently. Those don't count? And what were they?

I can't believe that marijuana alone was responsible for this. And I find it difficult to believe that anybody could do this without weird drugs of some kind...

There's got to be more to the story.

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