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Holland JA, Nelson L, Ravikumar PR, Elwood WN. 
“Embalming fluid-soaked marijuana: new high or new guise for PCP?”. 
J Psychoactive Drugs. 1998 Apr-Jun 15;30(2):215-9.
Abstract
A growing trend of smoking marijuana soaked in what is purported to be embalming fluid has been reported in the literature since the mid-1980s. This article describes several cases of intoxication, gives regional epidemiological data on this phenomenon, and includes current nomenclature. The authors also analyze a sample of fluid said to be embalming fluid and discover PCP (phencyclidine) and multiple congeners and by-products of PCP manufacture. The implications of this finding are discussed, and the hypothesis that most embalming fluid-soaked marijuana likely contains PCP is considered.
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