>> i had to go to the internet and look up information on it. and i really didn't understand the whole synthetic drug. i didn't know what it was. i didn't know how dangerous they were. >> the message we got after we went on the internet was that somebody had said it was okay for these drugs to be on the street. and they had been tweaked. but that's all we knew. >> synthetic lsd has been blamed for at least -- >> parents across the country are now learning the painful truth about synthetic designer drugs. >> investigators say he overdosed on a synthetic -- oth >> reports and overdoses reported almost daily. >> 16-year-old -- >> abruptly ended at just 18 years old. >> these drugs are being marketed and sold as legality actives to marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, lsd and heroin.