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Bye. he left. i went and did some errands and he came home and i thought he was sleeping. i tried to shake him awake but he was gone. >> at 4:40 p.m. nicholas colbert was dead. what would surprise many parents and stephanie colbert was what killed her son was sold to him at a convenience store. this quick stop is on south shelton road on colorado springs. he bought the drug for about $25. he had smoked synthetic marijuana, also known as spice. his autopsy report says it all. synthetic cannabis toxicity. >> i'm so surprised at how many people have not heard of this. it boggles my mind. >> mostl...

They don't think it's like cocaine or heroin that they're buying 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's how it started off really. these were one of the first ones, the roxys. 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-year-old. >> they look like trading card things. >> right. maui wowy. k2. all different kinds of packaging. i find it to be despicable. >> the high or the buzz from spice wasn't like marijuana. ...

You didn't want to eat. you didn't want to see people, very isolating. >> it can cause psychotic episodes, hallucinations, paranoia, seizures, tremors. >> people started using them in europe in the mid 2000s. then in 2009 we started noticing people were using them here. >> in the summer of 2013 colorado had an epidemic of spice casualties with three deaths and 260 people rushed to emergency rooms. >> we were at a point where we were getting five and six cases per day on these patients. they have fast heart rates, high blood pressure, agitated and their temperature goes up dangerously high. >> ...