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Synthetic Drug - A Scary Reality

Added Sep 23, 2015 •

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Anderson Cooper 360 weeknights at 8 and 10 on CNN  hey Bob Mackie patamon it's not it's really old parents need to know about Colorado Health officials fast getting three tests to determine if they're tied to a batch of synthetic marijuana that sent close to 150 people to the hospital it's on Ice later problem either synthetic designer drugs flooding in the United States mostly from China and it being sold in younger and younger teenagers the highs they deliver to be very very potent dangerously so there cause psychotic directions kidney failure from suicides law enforcement knows having a tough time just keeping ahead of the chemistry involved investigative correspondent Drew Griffin recently went along and major raid was able to show just how it is you could be for your team to buy new synthetic drugs here's his report did convenience stores in Terrebonne Parish Louisiana where behind the counters stuff in backpacks even a winter cap these tiny sealed packets of police say is synthetic marijuana selling for 20 to $30 a piece is this another poison people call it drugs but I call it a poison what it is sexual chemicals sprayed on plants and sold in packages that Clearly say not for human consumption but in reality that's exactly what they're used for with often tragic results  according to the DEA more than 200 new synthetic drugs are coming to the u.s. in the last for Sears known as spice and bath salts law enforcement say they're designed to mimic the highs of marijuana cocaine and other controlled drugs but unlike those control drugs this stuff you can easily buy online on hundreds of sites on the internet that say it's legal he did it is all 200 mg novelty collector's item Afghan black Ultra blueberry Haze collector's item not for human consumption is what it says on this product description  I wonder why you would call a stop we sent these collectors items off to a chemical lab to determine exactly what is inside them Robin Smith you knows what they can do he wanted to know if I could read his mind he was having some hallucinations hearing voices and that scared me he told me that he had smoked spice and my reaction was that he had done it out of the kitchen cabinet Smith's son was 15 when you smoke spice chemical version of marijuana and tried to kill himself before seeking help he has spent the last three years in and out of Psych metric hospital we had a normal functioning child and the next day we had a non-functioning all he did not want to live who did not want to be here who is hearing things and seeing things over the last 3 years when the federal government have passed laws outlawing certain chemicals used to make the synthetic drugs but the manufacturers have stayed one step ahead of the law I constantly altering the chemical composition once they alter that chemical is no longer controlled substance it is every time even the hint of a regulation comes for a particular chemical compound they're already developing the next load these chemical companies have a new chemical compound that is ready to take the place of the drugs that we control is there any legitimate industrial purpose for those chemical we are not aware of any legitimate industrial or medical use for these chemicals which brings us to our online purchase of these since trucks which we sent to the Cayman chemical lab in Ann Arbor Michigan it is here are packages of Afghan black Ultra ivory have an ocean snow we're tested all of them contained dangerous chemicals sold according to Greg Andres with only one purpose substances including synthetic cannabinoids and one case a hallucinogenic trip to mean we found an amphetamine analog all which I would consider designer are drugs dangerous is the stuff from a chemical compound situation quite dangerous there's a whole variety of reported effects ranging from Rapid or irregular heartbeat hallucinogenic effects Caesars psychosis there been several reported to Andres is Vice President of chemistry here and works closely with law enforcement to try and help them fight an infestation of chemically produced swarming to us so when the package says not for human consumption this is a collector's item  no way I don't believe it can black which looks like marijuana linked most closely with a known and dangerous compound called xlr-11 a drug now made illegal schedule 1 drug in the same law enforcement category as heroin and the website we bought it from says they don't sell banned substances came in chemicals Paul Kennedy ran the tests to compare our purchases to the chemical makeup of known drugs and our Afghan black Ultra had something else a surprise Spike that is the trip to mean the hallucinogen hallucinogen added High and the other packages ocean snow Ivory dove Vanilla Sky they all contain methiopropamine so this little cute little package that looks like you might be getting some kind of a breath freshener is actually a  variety you might save crystal meth for a Layman  and in your computer if I owe propylene so where are the drugs coming from Mostly from labs in China with a chemicals are produced and exported in bulk containers to the once they get here there's sprayed on plants or other compounds packaged and sold online and in places like that convenience store in Terrell Parish Louisiana just one site over 35 States part of a massive Crackdown by the DEA and local law enforcement the results 172 arrests and more than 20,000 lb of synthetic drugs seized Centrue in your report you said the most these was it coming from China why can't I be stopped  is tough Anderson according to the DEA they smuggled into the US in bulk sometimes called research chemicals everybody I talk to in the story says there's really no industrial use for this stuff the da says the United States is in dialogue with the Chinese government try and stop the flow of these locals bar obviously in a while they talk these poisons continue to arrive in there getting sold as collectors items are in packages is a nacra human consumption right yeah it does appear to be a really dangerous joke you saw how easy it was for us to purchase this stuff quite frankly I don't think it can be stopped Anderson which is why parents Ashley need to be aware of these things this stuff is not legal more importantly it's not safe and there's absolutely no government controls of what's inside these packages do they call it synthetic pot it's not pot it's just chemicals

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