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What can you tell me about 'lean'...?

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I've been reading about this cough syrup concoction that is sipped.

Do you, or anyone you know, have experience with it?

What age is the youngest/oldest sipper?

Has anyone you know died as a result of using it?

Thanks for all answers.

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  • Skitz
    Lv 4
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    It's purple and you dranks it.

    No, my colleagues and I prefer our codeine straight.

    In 2004, the University of Texas found that 8.3% of secondary school students in Texas had taken codeine syrup to get high + lil Wayne dranks it and he's 29.

    Not personally but my homies homies Big Moe and Pimp C might have Od'ed on it.

  • Kojak
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Lean also called "Purple Drank"

    To create Lean, a popular drink originated from Houston Texas, you require the following for the original formula:

    -Promethazine w/Codeine VC <- Sizzurp (active ingredient)

    -Original Sprite Soda <- Mixing ingredient (although different flavors of sprite are now used, such as sprite remix)

    -Jolly rancher candy <- Flavor additive

    The codeine is mainly responsible for the euphoric feeling after drinking lean. Promethazine causes motor skill impairment, lethargy, extreme drowsiness, as well as a disassociative feeling from all other parts of the body, specifically the stomach and digestive system. If it doesn't have promethazine w/ Codeine, it wont work.

    The medical side effects : Purple drank is confirmed or suspected to have caused the deaths of several prominent users. Respiratory depression is a potentially serious or fatal adverse drug reaction associated with the use of codeine, but mainly the danger lies in the much more potent and CNS-depressing phenothiazine-

    DJ Screw, who popularized the codeine-based drink, died of a codeine-promethazine-alcohol overdose on November 16, 2000,

    Big Moe, a DJ Screw protegé whose albums City of Syrup and Purple World were based on the drink and who has been described as having "rapped obsessively about the drug," died at age 33

    Pimp C, widely influential Port Arthur, Texas rapper and a member of rap duo UGK, was found dead on December 4, 2007, at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood, California. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office reported that the rapper's death was "due to promethazine/codeine effects

    In September 2006, Terrence Kiel, a San Diego Chargers player, was arrested during practice for the possession with intent to sell prescription cough syrup for use in making the drink. Kiel was caught trying to ship a case of syrup to a friend via Fed Ex. Kiel was charged with two felony counts of transporting a controlled substance and three counts of possession for sale of a controlled substance.

    On July 8, 2008, Johnny Jolly, a Green Bay Packers player, faced a possible maximum sentence of up to 20 years in jail

    On July 5, 2010, former Oakland Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell was arrested at his home in Mobile, Alabama, for possession of codeine syrup without a prescription.

    GOOD LUCK

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