WTF! HOW STRONG IS THAT SH!T? MAN SMOKES SALVIA & LEAPS OFF THE BALCONY TO HIS DEATH!

A 21-year-old man who apparently leaped to his death from a Roosevelt Island balcony was smoking salvia just before he jumped, police sources, his family and his friends said.

Ryan Santanna, 21, was hanging out on his bedroom balcony with an ex-girlfriend, Benazir Balani, smoking the hallucinogenic plant, Balani said.

She said he lay on the balcony on his stomach, pretending to swim like an animal.

"He stared at me but it was like he wasn't seeing me; it was just a blank stare," she said. Then he jumped from the 15th-floor balcony.

"He just ran and hopped over the fence," said Balani, 20, of Queens. "He had no idea who he was, what he was doing."

Santanna was a film production student at the Art Institute of New York City set to graduate in the spring. His father, Lauro Santanna, 42, said classmates will finish a film he was making.

"I want people to know he was a happy person," Santanna's weeping mother, Vera Cordiero Santanna, 50, said.

Ryan Santanna's sister, Carolyn, 17, said she was in her room studying when Balani rushed in to tell her what happened. "I looked down and he was there," Carolyn said. "I ran down the stairs. I was the first one to get to him. Then everyone was surrounding him."

Santanna had no history of mental problems, police sources said. His death is being investigated as a possible suicide, police said. An initial autopsy was inconclusive, according to the city medical examiner.

Legal in New York, salvia, a member of the mint family, provides a quick, potent high. Miley Cyrus was caught on video smoking it in December.


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