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>> parents across the country are now learning the painful truth about synthetic designer drugs. >> investigators say he overdosed on a synthetic marijuana -- >> otherwise known as k-2. >> reporter: with deaths and overdoses reported almost daily. >> poisons a 15-year-old girl. >> 16-year-old -- >> life bankruabruptly ended at 18 years old. >> these drugs are being marketed and sold as legal alternatives to marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, lsd and heroin. >> reporter: in the last four years, more than 300 synthetic designer drugs with names like spice, n-bomb and bath salts have flooded in...

Plastic. it turns out to be bath salts. a chemically produced synthetic stimulant that mimics meth. >> it's an analog of meth alone, which is a scheduled controlled substance. so this can be treated as a scheduled controlled substance. >> and it came from the country that according to the dea is manufacturing and shipping most of the synthetic drugs worldwide. >> from china, mainland china. >> it's no secret to law enforcement where it comes from. and it's no secret to drug dealers seeking to become entrepreneurs in the new world of designer drugs. >> any laboratory in china, if you send them ...

Designer drugs. >> investigators say he overdosed on a synthetic marijuana. >> otherwise known as k-2. >> reporter: with deaths and overdoses reported almost daily. >> poisons a 15-year-old girl. >> 16-year-old -- >> abruptly ended at 18 years old. >> these dugs are being marketed and sold as legal alternatives to marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, lsd, and heroin. >> reporter: in the last four years more than 300 synthetic designer drugs with names like spice, m-bomb and bath salts have flooded into the united states. even the popular club drug molly which is marketed as a pure form of the ...

Us. the label says not for human use. only for aroma therapy and bath salts. that doesn't stop people from smoking it. countries around the world are trying to outlaw this toxic mix of incense and chemicals. japan has a growing list of 1400 blan ed chemicals. >> the loy prohibits one type so what they'll do is they come out and create a different type. >> the recipe is constantly changing, keeping it technically legal. tokyo police say a driver smoking herb plowed into a group of pedestrians in june, killing one and injuring seven. japan's national police agency says herb use caused dozens of ...

>> otherwise known as k2. >> with deaths and overdoses reported daily. >> life abruptly ended at just 18 years old. >> these drugs are sold as legal alternatives to marijuana, methamphetamine, lsd, and heroin. >> synthetic designer drugs with names like spice, enbalm and bath salts have flooded into the united states. even the popular club drug molly, which is marketed as a pure form of the drug ecstacy, is being replaced by a variety of synthetic compounds. according to dea scientists, the highs may be the same, but the molecular structure is modified just enough to evade the law. >> these ch...