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  • 2014-04-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Smoking Bedbugs to Get High (en)
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  • April 2014 saw the proliferation of Internet accounts, based on a purported local television news spot from Phoenix station KNXV, reporting the latest alleged shocking schoolyard trend: kids smoking or injecting crushed bedbugs to get a cheap high from a hallucinogenic substance (PH-417) supposedly contained within those critters: However, this story was just a hoax, an April Fool's Day prank based on an altered version of a real KNXV-TV report from several months earlier on the dangers of dabbing (i.e., inhaling butane-extracted hash oil, also known as BHO): Shane Watson, the interview subject featured in both the hoax bedbug video and the original KNXV news report on dabbing, posted his own clip to YouTube to explain that he had nothing to do with the former, and that the latter misrepresented his involvement with the issue: The crushed bedbugs item has now entered the pantheon of bogus alarmist warnings about fictitiously bizarre things that kids supposedly do to get inexpensive highs, such as shamboiling (i.e., inhaling boiled shampoo fumes), jenkem (i.e., inhaling fermented raw sewage), and shooting up with Pantene brand shampoo. (en)
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