"The defendant related that he knew it was illegal to have the brain and that he and (another man) would spray the embalming fluid on 'weed' to get high," Trooper John Boardman told the Associated Press. WPMT added the brain was real and was kept for teaching purposes before being stolen.
"At this point now we're just trying to figure out where it came from," Trooper Robert Hicks told WPMT. "We're hoping that if anyone is missing a human specimen brain to bring it to our attention and maybe we can return it to its rightful owner."
According to The Washington Post, marijuana is “commonly laced with PCP and/or embalming fluid, both of which produce a hallucinogenic effect.” It adds that people who used the drug have been reported angry and paranoid with an “increase in women’s sexual appetites.” Long is in prison on several burglary convictions, but faces new charges of misdemeanor abuse of a corpse and conspiracy to commit abuse of a corpse.
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