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Treat, a bag of chocolate, that he had cooked with a white powder he said was extract from psychedelic mushrooms. >> he just gave eli and i the bag and said here you go. have fun. we just kind of started taking bites out of it. just eating it. it tasted just like chocolate. it didnt taste anything bad. no chemical taste or anything. it was just chocolate. and we just ended up splitting the bag. it was nothing like anything ive had before. i was kind of scared, but i was like reassuring myself, a...

Dont put yourself in the family that these families found them else. talk to your kids. that synthetic drugs are dangerous. all drugs are dangerous. >> this was done for the memorial for eli. his friends signed that that came. >> the family of elijah sty say they, too, hope their sons death can be a warning to others about the dangers of synthetic, designer drugs. >> our lives were turned upside down. our lives will never be the same. i dont know if you can really put something like that into wo...

What was inside that bag, or just how potent it was. budge melted the powder into chocolate that he gave to his new friends, including elijah sty. budge also sold some of the same drug to a young man who would share it with christian bjerk. >> adam budge early on in the investigation was the common link between these two overdose victims. so adam budge prepared the 2 cimbome into chocolate and he and eli sty consumed some of those chocolates, and eli sty died from them. >> 1,400 miles away from ...

Brain. >> when i got to the hospital, doctors said eli was brain dead. he was in the hospital for three days. he was on life support. so we had to make the call to disconnect him. >> there were now two dead. teenagers overdosing and dying from a deadly drug. and no one knew what it was or where it was coming from. do i need to have a certain amount? nope, now you can redeem your cashback for any amount, any time. thats great. yeah, you can use it for a statement credit or even get the cash. nice...

In. because i couldnt see him like that. i was -- >> he was dead. >> he was dead. yeah. >> we got the phone call that eli wasnt breathing, he was blue in the face. >> you had to call your mom. >> i called her when i was outside waiting for 911. >> and told her? >> told her eli died. >> were you able to fully tell her why? >> no. i was ashamed of myself for failing him, more or less. i felt like i had failed him. >> justin was a teen when elijahs family had taken him in, raised hip as their own. ...

What killed this healthy 18-year-old was a mystery that was about to strike this small midwest community again. >> we need an ambulance. we have a kid here who is not breathing. >> okay. where is it at? >> east grand forks. i dont think hes breathing at all there. >> no, hes dead. we need somebody now. >> can you start cpr with him? >> it was three days before elis birthday. >> he would be 18. >> he wanted to go to grand forks to see his cousin and spend time there with justin. >> melissa katzs ...

Here in the u.s. have gone unanswered. >> this is the funeral to eli. >> melissa katz, elijah stys mother, doesnt understand what there is to negotiate. chinese factories are making a fortune, she says, selling poison. >> what would you like to say to them? >> how dare you come into my country and sell drugs to our children. >> do you think they care? >> no. they dont care. >> cnn has learned the synthetic drugs that killed melissas son, elijah, and christian bjerk, were most likely made in chin...