Be it a public, roadside sewage or septic tank built in the home to hold human waste, the thrill seekers continually seek attain new highs from the next stinking sewage. Another popular intoxicant in Abuja and other major parts of northern Nigeria is lizard faeces.

Findings revealed that Nigerian youth have devised various means of getting high on lizard dung. For instance, when mixed with clothing dye powder, Zaqami medicinal herbs and seeds, lizard droppings offers unimaginable “high” to those addicted to it. The lizard dung is the most important part of the mixture. “We take a bowl, and start by adding blue dye powder to some water. Then we take the seeds from this fruit – called Zaqami. It’s a powerful medicine. Next we take the white part of the lizard dung and crumble it into the water. There are other things we can add as well, but this is ok. It’s ready to drink now,” said a menial worker from Kano State. The potion, when taken with peanuts or kolanut, produces a strong effect akin to drinking whisky on a very hot day.

In the northern city of Kano, there is now an alarming increase in the use of cheap household chemical products, lizard droppings and other cheap but highly toxic ways to get “high.”

Street kids and other youngsters are paid to hunt lizards and capture them alive; then the animals are kept in cages where they are fed daily and their droppings are collected, dried and kept safely for use. The users blend the faeces and wrap it neatly away to be taken as a drink; and while some others prefer to inhale the blended dung, others love to smoke crush it and smoke it with marijuana. The intoxicating effect of lizard dropping is believed to be 50 percent higher than marijuana and cocaine.

A 19-year old presented at the neuropsychiatric hospital with a history of smoking lizard dung, burnt lizard tail and marijuana. He said a friend introduced it to him. Initially, he said they crushed lizard faeces together with marijuana and settled down to smoke it, chasing it down with any brand of local alcoholic beverage. He enjoyed the pleasurable effect and started using it to get high until a friend at the construction site where he worked allegedly introduced him to the potency of lizard tail too. The most frequent pattern of use was mixing lizard faeces and marijuana with charred tail of lizard and smoking it. He said it increased his self-esteem, made him more confident, and sedated him for at least 10 hours. The patient claimed that immediately the ecstasy wears off, he starts craving seriously for another fix of marijuana, lizard tail and faeces. The craving is usually unbearable as it caused him severe nausea, itching of the throat, gums and several body parts and mild trembling.

To guarantee his daily fix, he would usually obtain lizards from walls of the houses, toilets, and around trees.

On detailed psychiatric examination, he was diagnosed as a case of opioid-dependent syndrome and nicotine-dependent syndrome. While we did not provide any specific pharmacological treatment for the use of wall lizard, said his doctor, he received the standard pharmacotherapy for opioid and nicotine withdrawal. Even during initial few days of the hospital stay, he was found chewing tails of wall lizards. He reported that it would help him in managing his craving for the complete cocktail.

http://thenationonlineng.net/i-will-follow-this-thrill-to-my-grave/

This is front page material

Lalasticlala

and these aboki from Kano will still blame igbosfor this absurdity. Let's face it, if the igbos stop marketing drugs for the North, shit and sewage excrement will become expensive in the north, the will smoke anything to get high. especially these people from Kano, they will start, buying unexcreted faeces in advance. that's what they want. lack of education is their greatest disease.

Lizard will b expensive now
Time to teach my ekuke to catch at least 10 per day

bujebudanu1:
Lizard will b expensive now

Is it not possible to start a lizard farm As long as it isn't illegal, money can be made.

ayama.......... there should moderation in everything we do. you want to get high, that's okay, nah normal thing for we hood nah, but with this shit, nigga you are definitely getting low, I mean 6ix fit under the ground.

BankeSmalls:
This is front page material

Lalasticlala

This thread will never make FP.

They will soon bury it deep in Nairaland Ads section

BankeSmalls:


Is it not possible to start a lizard farm As long as it isn't illegal, money can be made.

U can start dear and export d shits and tails to north. Moreover .lizard sell for some millions in Australia

I will be your .legal. Advice. Financial. Manager/advicer and supervisor

Lol, I'm sure it's the Igbos supplying them with lizard sheet and dried human shit.....

Na wah for aboki

I am just here to watch how some people will twist this story just to blame igbos.

It is finished

Is Igbo that produces lizards

Three men sit on the ground inside a house.

Beside them is a bowl containing a bright blue liquid.


The lizard dung is the most important part of the mixture


Scattered around are various ingredients that go into the mixture:

Clothing dye powder, medicinal herbs and seeds and most bizarre of all, lizard droppings.

In a nutshell, this is the source of the new "high" sweeping northern Nigeria.

Pot and peanuts

More often the problems of drug addiction are associated with inner cities in the industrialised world.

But in the northern city of Kano, there is now an alarming increase in the use of cheap household chemical products and other cheap but highly toxic ways to get "high".

A common Nigerian lizard
Nigerians are looking for thrills in strange places
"The lizard dung is the most important part of the mixture," one of the men tells me.

"We take a bowl, and start by adding blue dye powder to some water.

"Then we take the seeds from this fruit - called Zaqami. It's a powerful medicine.

"Next we take the white part of the lizard dung and crumble it into the water. There are other things we can add as well, but this is ok.

"It's ready to drink now."

As the three men talk to me, they pass the bowl of blue liquid between them, drinking it, then chasing the mixture down with handful of peanuts.

They tell me it helps the overall effect - like drinking strong whisky on a very hot day.

The effects will then have to be slept off in the afternoon.

Poverty

This is a social problem as much as it is a medical one.

Kano is a large sprawling city with very high levels of poverty and unemployment.

Smoking away everyday miseries
And drug taking is a way to escape from the hard realities of life, even if only for a short while.

Mansur Kabir is the minister of health in Kano state and his ministry has been monitoring this dangerous trend among drug users in Nigeria.

"There's a big difference between the drug-taking in Nigeria and the one in Europe.

"The expensive ones like cocaine and other dangerous drugs are not available here because of their expense.

"So these young people tend to resort to cheap drugs - to drinking excreta from animals, from dye products, things that one can never imagine.

"They are potentially very dangerous to young people."

Mr Kabir fears that the problem may not go away soon.


Many Nigerians turn to drugs because of poverty and unemployment
"It has become a problem particularly within the last two to three years - and it seems to be coinciding with increasing poverty and decreased opportunities for employment.

"There is also a very high migration from rural to the urban areas."

This a pattern repeated in urban areas across Nigeria.

There is an army of underemployed youths - all hungry, many on drugs and in need of money.

They are available for hire to politicians fighting election campaigns - a recipe for instability.

Musa Sa'ad Mohammed, a health official in Kano, says he is very much concerned about the potential for further violence in a city that has seen more than its fair share of civil unrest over the years.

"There are lots of people with lots of energy, lots of ideas and lots of potentials but cannot find work.

"Eventually what you find is a whole army of youth that are made to use their energies and resources and capabilities negatively."

Vicious circle

My drug taking friends round off their day smoking joints of marijuana laced with lizard dung.

They tell me that what they are doing is part of the everyday lives of an increasing number of young men.

Lizard droppings
Lizard droppings are a cheap alternative to cocaine
"It's really widespread," one of them tells me.

"You see people at the weekly markets, sitting under a tree and mixing these drugs.

"But you can't make a living, hold a job down, when you're under the influence of these drugs all day."

His friend agrees:

"I know all these drugs are not good for me.

"Now that I'm married and have children, I've tried to stop.

"Look at me, I look old ahead of my time and I've been spending all my money to buy these drugs."

This is not a problem that is being seriously addressed by health officials in Nigeria.

They say fighting hunger and disease are a more important use of scarce resources.

But it is nonetheless a serious and growing problem.

And one that has consequences both for the economy and social stability across the country.






http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2131440.stm

Mynd44:
https://www.nairaland.com/4436330/smoking-sniffing-drinking-lizard-dung

stop pushing my thread to crime section.

Why didnt you push the thread of that ab0ki that claimed Igbos are behind drug pandemic in the north to crime section?

Leave the thread here

Issa bad... very bad. Between lizards are in trouble.