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Lint Head

(15,064 posts) Mon Jul 30, 2012, 04:50 PM Jul 2012

This is a sad story. His son died because he was smoking synthetic weed;

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/07/27/bbnr-father-battles-synthetic-drugs.cnn?iref=allsearch

I support his cause but the truth has to be told. If his son had smoked real marijuana he probably would be alive today.

I just had a suicide in my family of a 25 year old nephew.

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Father working to get synthetic drugs off the street. (Original Post) Lint Head Jul 2012 OP

(23,720 posts)

1. you are right. They smoke it because it is easier to get than real marijuana

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 05:04 PM

Jul 2012

and because it won't keep them from passing a drug test for employment.