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Correspond. >> this is spice? >> this is all considered spice i have overshot the mark. or k2. no, i never thought it would be its all synthetic marijuana. this big. >> it certainly looks like i didnt. >> great branding. theyre trying to market it to i did -- research going into kids. this was under the counter. different liquor stores, et they used to sell it prominently cetera. they said, this sells really well. people really love it. displayed. >> until it became banned, it women feel like, o...

They have to buy at night on a street corner. >> this is very different from the drugs that people used to talk about in the 60s or 70s. here is how it started off, these are the first ones, the rokszys. they were geared more towards teens, 17 to 19 to older. they started changing the packaging and then they started going after our 12 to 14 years old. they looked like pokey mon trading cards. maui wowy, k2, all kinds of packaging. >> the high wasnt like marijuana. it was more like crack or meth ...

You were paranoid. you didnt want to eat, see people, very isolating. >> it can cause psychotic episodes, ahughes nations, paranoia, tremors. >> people started using them in europe in the mid to early 2000s an then around 2009 we started to notice that people in the united states were using them. >> this is an emergency room physician at the university of colorado hospital. in the summer ever 2013 colorado had an epidemic of spice casualties with three deaths and 260 people rushed to emergency r...

Major gas stations, marketed under names like k2 and mr. smiley. stephanie is suing the convenience store for allegedly seeing her son the drug that killed him. >> i was very naive. since its being sold with other convenience store items, i thought it was completely legal. >> david woodruff is one of her attorneys. >> the coroner told her, heres what killed nicholas. there were two chemicals in that stuff that are banned substan substances. >> spice delivers a powerful and dangerous high. and th...

Spice behind the front correspond. >> this is spice? >> this is all considered spice or k2. its all synthetic marijuana. >> it certainly looks like theyre trying to market it to kids. this was under the counter. they used to sell it prominently displayed. >> until it became banned, it was sold right up here. >> florida has been proactive, banning 127 compounds found in spice. >> its amazing to me how they add chemicals to these plants and thats what makes it so toxic. but that they keep changing...

They have gotten names like spice and mr. smiley and k-2 and blaze, as you mentioned. this is fake pot. not talking about real marijuana. this is fake pot. today, as you mentioned, the government is moving to ban their use to drug enforcement agency, declaring it is labeling three forms of synthetic drugs as type one, schedule one drugs. essentially that means you wont be able to buy or distribute them. now, even though this is not real, as you mentioned, were talking about some very real side e...

>> reporter: some companies can survive by marketing that irservices to a wide range of civilian needs. k2 trains these dogs to find virtually any type of object, in virtually any type of environment. >> k2 solutions is growing. >> reporter: contractors with more military-specific roles are embracing for worst case scenarios. >> wondering how are they going to survive, how they will be impacted. some are already having to take measures to lay people off. >> reporter: even though everyone is talk...

Good morning. >> reporter: good morning, rob, paula. the dea says there is growing use of these types of drugs. the dea took action after local law enforcement agencies asked them for help dealing with this problem. it is a massive nationwide crackdown on synthetic drugs with names like spice and bath salts and k2. in city after city similar scenes played out. agents walking out with bags of evidence. >> thousands and thousands of pounds of product here. we are going to have large sums of curren...

Ago and the states have banned it, but it is is the tweaking of the cannabis that makes it a marijuana-like substance which unfortunately calls to emergency departments and calls to hotlines and poison control centers lets you know how dangerous this substance really is. >> when we talk about the fact that it is coming with danger warning attached to it where it was legal a lot of people were familiar with it, and a lot of people familiar with salvia,and how does that compare the two? >> well, t...