[moovova]

Personally, I prefer smoking rattle snakes.

If I could only figure out which end to light.

[Fai Mao]

Just when you think you’ve read or heard everything.

[bert]

not to worry.... global warming is having a bad effect on scorpion habitat and the result will be fewer scorpions

[Covenantor]

Smokin Dead Scorpions?

[W.]

Perhaps they might try smoking dried banana peel scrapings like the hippies in the 60’s were rumored to have done... A bug in their ear, perhaps? Too bad the scorpion won’t fit in there.

[Cvengr]

Always wondered what that guy was smokin'.

[exDemMom]

I suppose any poison that affects the brain and causes mind-altering effects can be perceived as pleasurable to some people.

There is a reason we call such effects “intoxication.” The word literally means “a state of being poisoned.” Alcohol would be one of the safer intoxicants, since the body has specific mechanisms for detoxifying and purging the body of the chemical.

[Chode]

Black Lotus, Stygian, the BEST!!!I would sell Haga to a slayer such as you?

[Feckless]

I’m sitting on a freaking gold mine!

[PGalt]

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

[upchuck]

Thanks for posting the whole article.

[dfwright]

I find the inclusion of “dead” in the title interesting. I assume there’s no addiction problem with smoking live ones.

Another good name for a rock band “Smoking Dead Scorpions”

[Rummyfan]

“We need laws in place to stop the killing of scorpions,” he says.

Pakistan is the most f***ed up nation in the world.

[patriot08]

Sounds about right for these interbred savages. Nothing they do surprises me.

[mkjessup]

[IronJack]

Smoking Dead Scorpions sounds like the name of a thrash band.

[tshaun]

I prefer a Camel.

[Pearls Before Swine]

You learn something every day. “Nasha pa nasha khatmege”—that phrase is a keeper.

[Ken H]

You can almost see the scenario unfold => Scorpion-smoking will become a fad in the US. A profitable trade will develop as people in the Southwest try meet demand. There will be horror stories, and the govt will pass laws to deal with it.

[Little Pig]

I wonder if the venom actually has a direct intoxication effect, or if the “high” is simply the massive release of endorphins from the body as it tries to fight the pain caused by the venom.