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Drug-related offences, overdoses surge in US from 'fake weed'

Published Sun, Aug 16, 2015 · 09:50 PM

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Washington

IT goes by many names - K2, Spice, Bizarro, Scooby Snax, Kryp2nite and Stoopid, to name but a few - and it's setting off alarm bells across the United States.

Synthetic marijuana is being cited by police and public health officials for a dramatic surge in potentially lethal overdoses and drug-related offences nationwide.

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