Man Dies From Fentanyl Poisoning After Texting ‘It’s My Lucky Day’ After Finding Joint

A young dad has tragically died from accidental fentanyl poisoning just two and half hours after texting his girlfriend that it was his “lucky day” upon chancing on a discarded joint.

Michael Lorsdon, 25, of Laughlin, Nevada, found the joint while sweeping a street corner at his workplace last May. Within three minutes of sparking it, he collapsed and died.

Before smoking it, he’d sent his girlfriend a photo of the pre-rolled joint.

A post-mortem examination confirmed that Michael died as a result of fentanyl poisoning. For what it’s worth, no drugs were found on his person.

Tamula Mercer, 65, Michael’s biological gran who adopted him when he was two, is now speaking out to warn of the dangers of fentanyl and how easy it supposedly is to accidentally ingest it.

Tamula said: “Michael didn’t do drugs. He would smoke pot – we smoked pot together because it’s legal – but he despised alcohol and didn’t like how it made him feel. That’s why all this just blows my mind that he would die this way.”

Michael, a maintenance worker at Riverside Casino in Laughlin, texted his girlfriend around 10am about discovering a joint at work, saying it was his “lucky day”, just hours before his body was found.

Tamula added: “He showed a picture of a joint in his hand. He found a pre-roll.”

“I guess he told two of his other co-workers to come meet him and they’d smoke it together. They didn’t come and we don’t know if he smoked it.

“It’s not like in the old days where you can go to a party and somebody’s passing around a joint and everybody’s cool. It can be on anything.

“All you got to do is touch something, and if it’s got fentanyl on it and you touch your mouth, eyes, or nose, it’ll kill you.”

I’m seeing where babies are dying just from touching it, and there are drugs that are stronger than fentanyl killing people.”

Well, it’s all well and good trying to raise awareness of the rise in drug deaths in the country, but what about the issue of not putting things in your mouth that you find in the street? Apparently the joint was pre-rolled and untouched, so I guess that makes it slightly less disgusting, but he still had no idea what was inside it.

Still, I suppose it’s hard to resist when it’s 10am and you’ve just started your shift and a joint appears out of nowhere like magic. It must have seemed like a gift from beyond. Unfortunately, some lunatic decided to roll a joint and lace it with fentanyl and leave it there in the corner for someone to find. What a close call for those colleagues who didn’t turn up to smoke in time!

RIP Michael and thoughts with his friends and family.

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