No Bath Salts, Just Marijuana Found in Miami Zombie Cannibal Face Eater Guy After Toxicology Tests

June 29, 2012 by The Master Chief

Authorities have released the full toxicology report from the autopsy of Rudy Eugene — the man who made headlines after he chewed another man’s face off in Miami on Memorial Day Weekend — and, contrary to popular belief, it looks like bath salts, or any other outrageous drugs for that matter, were NOT behind the gruesome attack.

According to a statement on the full toxicology report by the Miami-Dade medical examiner, the only drug detected in the 31-year-old’s lifeless body …. was marijuana. MARI … FREAKIN … JUANA!

[Editor's note: We know weed gives people the munchies ... but DAYUM!]

Medical examiner Dr. Bruce Hyma said in his statement, “The laboratory has tested for but not detected any other street drugs, alcohol or prescription drugs…This includes cocaine, LSD, amphetamines (Ecstasy, Meth and others), phencyclidine (PCP or Angel Dust), heroin, oxycodone, Xanax, synthetic marijuana (Spice), and many other similar compounds.

A second forensic toxicology test conducted by a separate lab also confirmed the absence of the most comment ingredients found in bath salts, which mimic the effects of cocaine or methamphetamine and have been associated with various bizarre “zombie attack”-like crimes in recent months, and many — including Miami police officials — believed they were what caused Rudy Eugene to attack Ronald Poppo, and chew off at least 70% of his face.

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

But that doesn’t necessarily mean weed — literally the least harmful “drug” known to man — is what made Rudy Eugene eat Ronald Poppo‘s face. According to the Miami Herald, the medical examiner’s report didn’t address previously reported autopsy findings of what appeared to be undigested pills in Eugene’s stomach … so we’ll most likely never know what really unhinged Eugene and caused him to act so violently

As Dr. Bruce Goldberger, Professor and Director of Toxicology at the University of Florida, noted in a report from the Associated Press, “The problem today is that there is an almost an infinite number of chemical substances out there that can trigger unusual behavior,” adding that the medical examiner’s office in Miami is known for doing thorough work, and he’s confident that they, as well as the second lab, covered as much ground as possible.

Still, Dr. Goldberger says that it’s almost impossible for toxicology testing to keep up with all of these new street drugs that literally come out of nowhere.

“There are many of these synthetic drugs that we currently don’t have the methodology to test on, and that is not the fault of the toxicology lab. The challenge today for the toxicology lab is to stay on top of these new chemicals and develop methodologies for them, but it’s very difficult and very expensive.” Goldberger said. “There is no one test or combination of tests that can detect every possible substance out there.”

Dr. Patricia Junquera, who is an assistant professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and is considered an expert on addictions, said she wouldn’t rule out the fact that a different “strain” of marijuana could have caused the attack.

“It could have been the strain of marijuana that increases the dopamine in the brain,” she said, adding that there are two strains of marijuana called sativa, which increases dopamine and gives you energy, and indica, which is a “sleepy high.”

“People don’t really know what the amount of either is in each little packet of marijuana,” Dr. Junquera explained. “And we can’t differentiate between the two in the blood, much less in a dead person.”

She also suggested that if Eugene suffered from a mental health condition, “the marijuana could have increased even further the dopamine levels and aggravated the situation,” which, she says, is why marijuana can’t be totally ruled out.

It’s been a little over a month since the May 26th incident, and officials still have no clue what led 31-year-old Rudy Eugene to attack Ronald Poppo, a 65-year-old homeless man who was asleep moments before the assault occurred.

Surveillance video from the Miami Herald’s parking garage nearby captured the 18-minute attack, in which Poppo woke up to Eugene stripping him naked, and beating him senseless, while his attacker used his bare teeth to chew off pieces of the flesh from his face.

The police officer who shot and killed Eugene said he growled at him, with pieces of Poppo’s face hanging from his mouth, when he was told to stop.

Surprisingly, the homeless man survived the bizarre attack, however … to this day, Ronald Poppo remains in a Miami hospital with some of the most serious injuries to his face doctors have ever seen.

According to local reports out of Miami, Rudy Eugene — a former football player for the North Miami Beach High School — was once diagnosed as schizophrenic after an arrest, and authorities are unsure as to whether or not he sought treatment for the condition.

Eugene was also reportedly accused of threatening to kill his mother in another incident in which he was arrested. But despite all of that, his friends and family members say they never expected the man they knew to commit such a horrific act.

Eugene’s friends and family have said that he was a religious, non-violent person, and that he didn’t drink or do any drugs other than marijuana. Eugene was reportedly participating in a Bible study and telling friends he wanted to stop smoking weed.

“There’s no answer for it, not really,” Eugene’s younger brother, Marckenson Charles, said in an interview. “Anybody who knew him knows this wasn’t the person we knew him to be. Whatever triggered him, there is no answer for this.”

Charles said that Eugene has been buried, and his family doesn’t plan on pursuing any legal action against the Miami PD for killing Eugene because they understand that the police had to use “the force they felt was necessary, even if we don’t agree with that.”

Meanwhile, despite the victim’s injuries (he lost an eye and his nose, and must undergo another round of reconstructive surgery), Ronald Poppo is said to be “doing well,” according to doctors at the Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

His doctors say that mental health professionals have been helping him with the coping, and he’s coping “remarkably well.” Poppo’s family has said that they haven’t been in contact with him for more than 30 years and thought he was dead.

Now that we know that “bath salts” didn’t do it (and we know marijuana for damn sure didn’t do it)…

What do you think caused Rudy Eugene to attack Ronald Poppo, and chew more than half of his face off?

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  • Haley

    and this is why weed should stay illegal!

    • Richard

      um weed doesnt make you eat someones face off and im pretty sure the government should legalize it to control what substances do go into the market

    • Fuck you

      shut your bitch ass up

    • Haley

      Bitch ass. Boy I done a lot more in my life then you ever have and I’m probably only half ur age. I know this shit messes with your head! That’s why you kids shouldn’t mess with it

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    • http://www.facebook.com/lesley.cowanbaker Lesley Cowan Baker

      What if the guy did do bath salts like his girlfriend said but the substance did its damage and then passed from his system?

    • Haley

      They still would have found traces of it in his blood or hair. It takes
      30 days for it to leave your blood and they’ve gone back as far as 6
      months with my hair test but they can go back longer

    • Cap’nCrunch

      Fortunately your hair keeps growing after you die, so in 6mos maybe he’ll have it permanently printed in his hair if it’s a chemical or some other metabolite.
      I also never heard any report on what methods were used in his autopsy/tox screen… I suppose anybody could look that up.
      I suppose it could make a considerable difference whether they tested his blood, urine, liver, brain, bowels, spinal cord, hair or what during the autopsy. Aren’t some things metabolized only in certain parts of the body? I would imagine if it couldn’t pass the blood-brain barrier they figured it didn’t cause him to wig out. What if his partially-digested pills were coated in something?
      But then again, nobody knows what it really is! May be drug-related, may not.

    • blah

      You have no way of knowing if you’re “done more” than anyone else on here. This means you jump to conclusions and you’re illogical.

      If not, then you’re just a fucking liar. Anyone who has ever smoked weed EVER knows that it doesn’t give you a palate for human flesh, the urge to strip naked in public or the ability to RESIST GUNSHOTS.

      Come on, people. Don’t be so fucking gullible.

    • GBSS

      LMAO!! good thing you dont know what ur talking about cus if not wed all be fucked.

  • Samantha

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJftg7nQzNE&feature=g-upl

    Above is a link of an commentary I did recently on this story. Please view and subscribe for more videos coming shortly.

  • Dr. C. Graves Phd Anthropology

    A form of HooDoo, a privatized sect unknown to most average people with no Afro-Carribean interest… called the “unbaptized “…. Apparently, they are a large , considerably, in MIAMI …of all places. To sum it up… they practice “black magick” of which icludes the use of HUMAN REMAINS ALWAYS OF KNOWN SUICIDE VICTIM/MENTALLY ILL/MURDERERS/…. NEVER THE REMAINS OF “GOOD GUYS” ….. Apparently they create an ‘Nganga’ which is sort of a sacrificial alter, containing not only sticks, herbs, liquor, and animal remains…. but also a human skull of with a fresh human brain is exchanged once its maguck subsides…… Supposedly another Miami man ,years ago, wished to do away with his cheating wife and in order to do so, he paid x amount of $ to a Tata Nkisi… elder…witch doctor of Palo and allowed the Nganga contained spirit to do the mans bidding via capturing his wifes voice in a bottle (it is said that the soul is contained within the breath) … opening said bottle toward the Nganga alter during a ritual of which a rooster and dig were sacrifief to appease whatever criminal spirit contained within the Nganga….. It is said that the wife doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire the following evening…..

    If you want to know more about Palo and Hoodoo/Santeria then read…..

    My honest guess is that Mr. Eugene pissed off the waaaaaaaay wrong person and became transpossessed as he went on a humiliating gruesome,
    animalistic rampage thud leading to his death ultimately….. Maybe his POT DEALER was a Palero and was owed cash…. fuck if i knoe…… but my theory mskes WAAAAAAAAAY MORE LOGICAL SENSE THAN MSRIJUANS BRING THE CULPRIT….& NO I DO NOT SMOKE, BUT SUPPORT LRGSLIZATION… DUE TO IT BEING S HARMLESS MEFICINSL (IN SOME CASES) HERB.S

    • Dr. C. Graves Phd Anthropology

      Excuse any and all spelling, grammatical, etc errors. I am posting via the crappiest “smart” phone known to man and currently can make no ‘edits’ without access to a PC, for whatever the reason.

      Despite, said errors, I do so hope that those interested are able to translate my post into proper American-English language.

      Sincerely,
      Me*

  • Cap’nCrunch

    The fact is, anything could have caused that, we have merely narrowed down what we already knew it wasn’t. If he was a diagnosed schizophrenic, he may have been secretly suffering from MPD and making it worse through drug use, indicating that if he had been going to church trying to quit that it was just one of his altered selves, and maybe he was doing that contrary to the will of some other alter that nobody knew. It is also possible, if he were experiencing some extreme form of MPD that he could have been made predisposed to that by nearly anyone. I read a disturbing article last year that expounds on this notion.

    http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_mindcon03.htm
    was a transcript of a speech by a Dr. D. Corydon Hammond to his peers in the psychology/therapy/hypno-therapy community. So it turns out anyone could have either predisposed him to MPD or convinced him to create an alternate self to do something this fucked up. That may be the his parents or some creeper or even the local shaman.Nothing has ruled out Dr. Graves’ suggestion that it may be hoodoo. Even if hoodoo isn’t real, if he could be made to believe, given what the article said about him, maybe he would flip out after smoking weed and popping some pills. THC is psychoactive, of course, so it could potentially have stimulated his schizophrenia. The pills could have even been coated in something that absorbed into his bloodstream and passed the blood-brain barrier before the pills themselves could dissolve.The claim by the article’s source that it may have been a specific strain of cannabis that caused it is preposterous and uneducated. Cannabinoids may vary between strains, plant to plant, branch to branch, but to say that hybridized genetics of cannabis sativa and cannabis indica turned him into a face-eating zombie is crazy talk. Does anybody even know what the pills in his stomach were??

    What if he really was zombified? If it wasn’t by hoodoo or a mental or psychological faculty of his own, it could quite conceivably be caused by anything. If it’s the fungus though, fall will see the zombie uprising. If it is biological… well we would have seen it already. lol
    And that leaves the fact that a zombie outbreak could be caused chemically, and would make its spread an act of commission on somebody’s part… Maybe hoodoo-ers or maybe some secret society that is hypnotizing people into MPD (a society that presumably holds some goal of world domination or something dastardly). If it was chemical, it might actually be based off the ant fungus thing, which I’d imagine works that way on the ant-brains. So just synthesize the chemical that fungus is producing to control the ants, if that’s how it works. I guess planking by your mandibles off a leaf to sprout spores and make more fungal zombie ants is a lot like stripping down naked and eating brains, growling stereotypical zombie shit. Remember, fungi need proper heat and humidity to fruit and let off spores, so that might explain the elevated body temperature, dehydration, clothes-shedding, blood and flesh spewing cacaphony in Miami.

    • Cap’nCrunch

      Oh shit sorry for double posting and posting all over the place, but I was reading more about that link I referenced and ran across an appropriate warning that maybe I should have made above.
      “This speech is available in three slightly different versions online. Not everyone should read it, however. If you are a trauma survivor you may wish to avoid reading the transcript because it contains descriptions of child abuse and torture techniques. The speech has been located at several different locations includinghttp://www.fidai.clara.net/satanflappery/greenbaum.htm. . .
      This is beyond what Hammond was advocating, I think. He had discovered some patterns in some very disturbed patients and shared his discovery with a professional audience. Hammond’s speculation concerning the conspiracy behind the abuse may be troubling, but it is not necessarily harmful. The harm comes from mistreating other people.Hammond, Peterson, and Seward are not the only ones who believe that government mind control experiments have left human casualties. Projects with names such as MK-ULTRA, Artichoke, and Bluebird have been acknowledged by government officials in documents produced under the Freedom of Information Act. These experiments appear to have been conducted in the U.S. andCanada, and perhaps other places. Survivors of these experiments have the right to effective therapy.What should we do as therapists? We need to be sure that we are using treatment techniques which are validated by research and by the clinical results of others. We need to be vigilant about boundary issues and ethics, while remaining compassionate about the things that our patients have been through. Above all, we need to heed Hypocrites’ words “First do no harm.” A variation of these words can be found in all of our ethical guidelines”

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