boffins have warned.The bonkers practise, which takes place in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, sees the poisonous creature dried in sunlight before it’s burnt to death on a stove.Ashes from the tail can then be mixed with hashish or tobacco and smoked in a cigarette, or alternatively burnt in a small pipe.The first six hours of the high are ‘painful’ as the body processes the fumes – but slowly, the feeling becomes enjoyable, reports the Kashmir Monitor.Unsurprisingly, experts say the odd activity can cause an array of health problems, including a constant state of delusion, addiction and sleeping problems.“Scorpion smoking causes short and long-term memory loss,” said Jamal, a medical officer at the Khyber Teaching.
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