You have the option of drying it dead, or burning it on coal, which is alive.
The last thing imaginable is that the imagination of addicts will bring this level of risk to their lives, but their imagination seems to have no limits.
They have become addicted to scorpions, which have begun to spread in South Asia, particularly Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Smoking scorpions is not unusual in South Asian countries, but according to regional media reports, this practice has recently been popular in several parts of Pakistan.
It is clear that the poison of the scorpion conducts a smoker to a state of strong orgasm, and becomes very addictive with time
So how do you smoke a scorpion?
It is a simple process, according to the blog's description, although it seems more disgusting than simple.
The dead scorpion is dried in the sun for several hours, or the live scorpion burns on the coal until it dies.
And then ignite the fire in the dried carcass and inhales the resulting smoke.
Since the scorpion's tail is the poison, which is what the addicts want, some smokers prefer to grind the dried tail, mix it with cannabis and tobacco, and smoke it as a cigarette.
Its effect is fast and strong but its smell is foul
In his 2007 book, "Drugs in Afghanistan," sociologist David MacDonald describes a friend's testimony that saw the impact of scorpion smoke on an addict. "The effect of the drug was instantaneous, red-eyeing the man's eyes much more strongly than cannabis smokers.
The man looked drunk but alert and alert at the same time, although he stumbled and fell when he tried to get out of his seat, the smoke was "sweeter" than the smoke of hashish, smelled foul, and extended its effect longer than hashish as well.
Apparently, the ecstasy caused by scorpion smoke lasts ten hours. It is said that the first 6 hours of them are painful, while the body is accustomed to the strange material, but this feeling gradually diminishes and replaced by a sense of pleasure followed by a tremendous pleasure later.
So that everything seems to dance
"Everything looks like dancing, roads, cars, everything I see," recalls Afghan Khan Khan, a 74-year-old ex-smoker who recounts his experience.
A scorpion smoker, a young man in his twenties, was buying a scorpion for a rupee or two from a vendor who was bringing his stock from the Mtni region of Pakistan's Peshawar region, a region where scorpions are hot.
At the height of his addiction, he was accompanied by a comb of the land of his village in search of a hand to stoke it. When he was in desperate need of anesthetic and could not find any hand, he traveled to Peshawar, Afghanistan, to bring scorpions. "It was the worst kind of addiction," he said.
It is more dangerous than other types of drugs, and that is what happens with the human brain
Experts agree that scorpion poison is very dangerous to the human brain, much more than other types of drugs, especially when inhaled.
"The smoking of scorpions causes both short and long-term memory loss," said Azzaz Jamal, a doctor at Khyber Teaching Hospital, explaining the effect of the drug. Smoking causes hallucinations, a situation in which people imagine something that does not really exist. "
Prolonged exposure to scorpion smoke may cause sleep disturbances and appetite, and eventually lead to permanent disorders, he said.
Even this obsession with scorpions hinders scientific research
But addiction is a phenomenon that is difficult to combat on a national scale in Pakistan, mainly because there are no statistics, and no research is available.
According to some reports, popular popularity has recently increased in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan, where addiction is not only a rare luxury.
"We have to put in place laws to prevent the killing of scorpions," said Azimullah, a former head of the anti-drug department in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. "It is necessary to regulate how scorpions are used; their addiction hinders their availability for research and medical treatment.
Scorpio addiction remains rare globally, but it is a cheap and easy fun for the young people of Pakistan, Afghanistan and some parts of India. "Thanks to our successful campaigns of alcoholism, opium, syrup and heroin in urban areas, young people are rushing on highways to try out the cries of these new scorpions," said a police officer in the Indian city of Behruosh.
But in India, they do not just smoke, they get poison directly. Rs 100 for sting
In some areas of India, addicts prefer a more direct and painful way to get a scorpion poison dose: they are bitten and pay between 100 and 150 Indian rupees for one bite.
Others resort to domestic lizards to collect their daily dose, as they are sautéed, grinded into a fine powder, then mixed with opium for use as a drug.
The orchid powder is thought to strengthen the opiate-reducing effect, leading to an ecstatic feeling.