In Fort Lauderdale last month, a man tried to break down the front door of a local precinct and told police officers he was high on flakka. A few weeks later, another man who said he had just smoked flakka impaled himself while trying to scale a fence around the police station. In Lake Worth, a city in Palm Beach County, a man armed with a gun -- and naked -- stood on a rooftop and announced, "I feel delusional, and I'm hallucinating!
Flakka is a designer drug that can be snorted, smoked, injected or swallowed. It may also be combined with other, softer drugs such as marijuana. Flakka is most typically made from the chemical alpha-PVP, which is a synthetic version of the amphetamine-like stimulant cathinone.
Cathinones are chemicals derived from the khat plant grown in the Middle East and Somalia, where the leaves are frequently chewed for a euphoric buzz. It's the same class of chemical that's used to make so-called bath salts , a drug that was found to be behind a number of alarming incidents, including the case of a man in Miami who allegedly chewed another man's face while high on bath salts in The immediate and long-term effects of cathinones can rival some of the strongest crystal meth and cocaine.
MDMA, known widely as Molly, has been the cause of a number of fatalities and the recent round of overdoses that hospitalized a dozen people at Wesleyan University. Hall says the drug is designed to cause the brain to flood with dopamine, a hormone that helps control the brain's reward and pleasure centers, and then block the transmitters, producing an intense feeling of euphoria.
Taking additional flakka while already high -- a practice known as "snacking" -- or combining cathinones with other drugs often leads to serious health complications including rapid heart rate, agitation, extreme aggression and psychosis. The individual becomes psychotic, they often rip off their clothes and run out into the street violently and have an adrenaline-like strength and police are called and it takes four or five officers to restrain them. Then once they are restrained, if they don't receive immediate medical attention they can die.
Cathinone use can also cause rhabdomyolysis, which is a melting of the muscle tissue and the release of muscle fibers into the blood stream. This can lead to kidney failure and result in a user needing permanent dialysis.
The drug's name appears to have several meanings, says Hall. Fellow rapper Gucci Mane is said to have later added Flocka Flame via rhyming reduplication. From the beginning of his career, Malphurs has heavily marketed the Flocka part of his moniker, often employing it as a nickname for himself. His debut studio album in o was called Flockaveli, punning on Machiavelli. He has since released mixtapes with names like DuFlocka Rant.
Once Malphurs became a popular act and familiar name, fans and music journalists took to referring to him as Flocka. By , the term Flocka came to be used as an identifier for anything related to Waka Flocka.
Flocka also became an exclamation yelled at his concerts or at parties when his music came on. Among fans, Flocka is used as a shorthand for all things Waka Flocka , from the rapper himself and his music to his personality and look. For instance, one could get some Flocka dreads if they wanted to style themselves after Waka Flocka.
As another example, one might do a Flocka dance if moving like the rapper does on stage. Flocka is sometimes humorously shouted at random and in inappropriate contexts, in imitation to the frequent exclamation of his name at concerts and in the hip-hop community.
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