Wet IS Formaldehyde, claims Rehab Counselor.

[DJ]

SWIM remembers reading an interesting article in Details Men's Magazine about a kid who was a dustbunny in the Austin, TX area.

The article made claims that much of the PCP available on the streets these days tends to be between 7-14% PCP that is cut with embalming fluid.

SWIM has even come across PCP cut with olive oil for some damn reason.
Maybe it was because a particular batch going around then was known to ignite into a big "poof" type of flame upon initial lighting of it!!! No kidding. SWIM watched his friend have to wear a bandana around his face while lighting it from that first "poof" onward until that particular batch was all smoked up. SWIM can only imagine what that stuff contained. SWIM says it smelled like the big metal kind of permanent magic markers.

[snarkymalarky]

Yeah, I've encountered some pretty ridiculous BS about drugs just having to sit through various drug education /health talks in college and high school. I've had people tell me that LSD is one of the most addictive drugs out there, that nitrous is just as toxic as huffing solvents like toluene, that drugs in general will make your penis smaller, and of course the classic confusion between "embalming fluid" and actual formaldehyde. It's amazing to me how some people can take their opinions on drugs so seriously when they are so pathetically misinformed.

[sarbanes]

Formaldehyde is highly reactive. The reason it is mutagenic is its ability to cross link human proteins amino group. Is it not possible that it somehow reacts with some component(s) in tobacco to ultimately form a drug (or pro-drug, which is formed upon heating/smoking)? I think it is just sloppy oral history to blame, but don't ever rule anything out. Has anyone here tried smoking a dried cigarette, which had been dunked in formalin?
snip..."In the preparation of epi-epibatidine of formula XVIII (formula XVII with R = 6-(chloro)-pyrid-3-yl group and R' = hydrogen) 6-(chloro)-pyridine-3-aldehyde [6-(chloro)-nicotine aldehyde] is used as aldehyde of general formula VI. The reaction may be carried out in an anhydrous aprotic solvent, preferably a halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbon, e. g. dichloromethane, or a mixture of such. The reaction may be performed at elevated temperature, preferably at the boiling point of the reaction mixture".....snip
-just food for thought, but possibly some reaction between nicotine and methanal to form something on its own, or when subsequently dried (and or) smoked. Who knows? Good to always have an open mind.