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K2 overdoses a ‘total drain’ on downtown resources (Austin, TX)
kxan ^ | Mar. 7, 2017 | Patrick Tolbert

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; drugs; k2; marijuana
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Lowest common denominator.

1 posted on 03/07/2017 8:57:37 AM PST by bgill
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To: bgill

I get by with a little help from my friends ....


2 posted on 03/07/2017 8:59:12 AM PST by nevermorelenore ( I miss Reagan !)
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To: bgill

Is this the K2 vitamin I take with my Vitamin D or some other kind of thing


3 posted on 03/07/2017 9:00:13 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: bgill

Keeping Austin weird.


4 posted on 03/07/2017 9:02:54 AM PST by C19fan
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To: bgill

It’s just medicine.


5 posted on 03/07/2017 9:04:09 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: bgill
[...] 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.

You don't fool me! I watched a lot of "Kojak," "Mannix," etc. while growing up.

All the cop has to do is put a pinch of it on his tongue, and he'll know.

Regards,

6 posted on 03/07/2017 9:09:32 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: bgill

Stay stupid Austin.


7 posted on 03/07/2017 9:14:32 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: bgill

I don’t even know what “K2” is. I do know what O-Ethyl O-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methylphosphonite is.


8 posted on 03/07/2017 9:19:10 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: alexander_busek

I went to the same school of TV detectives as you.


9 posted on 03/07/2017 9:23:24 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: bgill

LIBERALISM is a total drain.

UT is whining about needing more cops to stop the murders and assaults,
BUT
Let’s bring more sanctuarians in!

Libs are obsessed with the need to feel good about themselves- BETTER than us idiotic deplorable peons - and damn the consequences!


10 posted on 03/07/2017 9:28:35 AM PST by spankalib ("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
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To: bgill
Decades ago, I-35 going through Austin was likened to an open sewer flowing through your neighborhood.

Now I-35 is more like a pristine causeway keeping you out of the muck.

11 posted on 03/07/2017 9:30:47 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: bgill

Perhaps the solution is to not be so fast to the scene of the self-inflicted overdose.


12 posted on 03/07/2017 9:40:06 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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We are starting to see am uptick on use of k2 in pa. Very sad....if your particular brain is at all susceptible to this drug you will literally NEVER recover and be the same. Heartbr2ealing.


13 posted on 03/07/2017 9:45:06 AM PST by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: bgill

We are starting to see am uptick on use of k2 in pa. Very sad....if your particular brain is at all susceptible to this drug you will literally NEVER recover and be the same. Heartbr2ealing.


14 posted on 03/07/2017 9:45:09 AM PST by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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“Now I-35 is more like a pristine causeway keeping you out of the muck.”

Two decades ago you could buy a house a few blocks from I-35 for $100,000..

Today that same house sells for at least $650,000.


15 posted on 03/07/2017 9:56:49 AM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: bgill

Diversity is our strength


16 posted on 03/07/2017 9:58:52 AM PST by wardaddy (this is war....)
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K2

How the mighty Godwin has fallen

Now associated with a crappy street drug


17 posted on 03/07/2017 10:00:34 AM PST by wardaddy (this is war....)
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To: grobdriver

I-35 is Austin’s border wall. You don’t want to wander off the east side.


18 posted on 03/07/2017 10:02:33 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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“I-35 is Austin’s border wall. You don’t want to wander off the east side.”

Not much of a wall as there are high end restaurants, hipsters driving Teslas, 28 year old tech executives driving Lamborghinis and very expensive houses on both sides of I-35.

The only thing that is not on the east side are $4 million high rise condo units.


19 posted on 03/07/2017 10:17:51 AM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: bgill
You don’t want to wander off the east side

(Shrug) No choice.

Allied Sales on 7th is the only place to get a case of Aeroshell oil for my plane...

But I don't wander - I'm in and out, and I'm locked and loaded the whole time.

20 posted on 03/07/2017 10:21:05 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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