Posted on 03/07/2017 8:57:37 AM PST by bgill
Thirty-six people are facing new charges accused of dealing K2 or related synthetic drugs. Austin police are rounding up people involved with synthetic drugs stemming from a late-2016 string of overdoses... Unlike dealing with an epidemic of crack cases, where officers can quickly identify the drug using field tests and arrest the suspect, when officers encounter a person with a substance they suspect to be K2 or another synthetic drug, they have to confiscate the drug and send it off for testing and let the person go. It takes months of lab testing to identify the drug before a warrant can be issued for the person’s arrest.
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K2
How the mighty Godwin has fallen
Now associated with a crappy street drug
This stuff is bad news
Even High Times and EROWID warn vociferously of its perils
Is this the K2 vitamin I take with my Vitamin D or some other kind of thing
No, k2 is one of those tall hills.
Gone are the days when the copper takes a big lick of the powdery substance, looks up, and says “book him”.
I miss those days. Cops got high!
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