Well, actually, there's a lot of ways to make purple drank, from what I'm reading. Those aren't actually necessary components; they're just the flavor additives. Technically, all you need is the cough syrup to actually have the effect. The drink and the sugary additive negate the flavor [given how much cough syrup has to be ingested to get the effects, you need to sweeten the flavor pretty heavily if you wanna be able to get it down] of the cough syrup. You could do it with coffee and malt-balls, technically. I don't think that the drugs themselves influenced him or were a part of the incident itself. Purple Drank is actually noted to have effects very similar to PCP. And last I checked, nobody calls PCP a "chill out" drug...
The overall point there is just that he's not quite as innocent as the media portrayed him as. Apparently, he had been expelled for truancy issues and there'd been a bunch of burglaries in the area. Previously, someone in a hoody matching the description of Trayvon's had been witnessed peering into the windows of an empty house, and later that day the house was burglarized. Then that night, Zimmerman reports seeing Trayvon peering into the windows of houses, and it's mentioned in his phone transcript with the dispatcher.
The thing was, too, is that Zimmerman stopped following Zimmerman and returned to his car, again as the phone records show. After the dispatcher informs him that they don't need him to follow, he returns to his vehicle. Zimmerman loses sight of Trayvon. He lost sight of him, and returned to his vehicle, and then the incident following happens a stone's throw away from Zimmerman's vehicle.
Zimmerman wasn't pursuing Trayvon when the fight started, and that's where we've been mistaken. Trayvon came back after Zimmerman had retreated to his vehicle to wait for the cops. Zimmerman even said where he would meet the cops at, and that that was where he was headed.
We can't even pretend like Trayvon was being pursued anymore, because the transcripts simply do not show that, they show the opposite.
Quote:It is a cough suppressant in small doses, but in large doses it can result in a disassociative state, with hallucinations, similar to that produced by PCP or ketamine.Quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_drank#Ingredients
The overall point there is just that he's not quite as innocent as the media portrayed him as. Apparently, he had been expelled for truancy issues and there'd been a bunch of burglaries in the area. Previously, someone in a hoody matching the description of Trayvon's had been witnessed peering into the windows of an empty house, and later that day the house was burglarized. Then that night, Zimmerman reports seeing Trayvon peering into the windows of houses, and it's mentioned in his phone transcript with the dispatcher.
The thing was, too, is that Zimmerman stopped following Zimmerman and returned to his car, again as the phone records show. After the dispatcher informs him that they don't need him to follow, he returns to his vehicle. Zimmerman loses sight of Trayvon. He lost sight of him, and returned to his vehicle, and then the incident following happens a stone's throw away from Zimmerman's vehicle.
Zimmerman wasn't pursuing Trayvon when the fight started, and that's where we've been mistaken. Trayvon came back after Zimmerman had retreated to his vehicle to wait for the cops. Zimmerman even said where he would meet the cops at, and that that was where he was headed.
We can't even pretend like Trayvon was being pursued anymore, because the transcripts simply do not show that, they show the opposite.
