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More than 47 people overdose in New Haven :

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/08/15/more-than-47-people-overdose-in-new-haven-as-park-visitors-watch-in-horror.html

More than 47 people overdosed on what's believed to have
been synthetic marijuana at or near a Connecticut city park
as fellow parkgoers watched in horror.

Officials said most of the overdoses happened on the
New Haven Green throughout the day on Wednesday.

"We have a guy laid out in the alleyway, unresponsive,
eyes wide open. He's out cold", an unidentified bystander
shouted, according to the New Haven Register.

Lt. Ernest Jones, an emergency medical technician for
the New Haven Fire Department, told the Register he's
had his job for five years, and never had such an
abnormal day at work.

"This was a particularly odd, rare occasion where
(there was) call after call for man down, obviously
with symptoms of some kind of overdose, and at the
time of getting that patient packaged and transported
to the hospital, we'd see another immediately fall down,
right there", Jones said. "At that point, we'd go help
that patient, and while helping that patient, another
person went down. So it became a domino effect".

. . . . . . .

Woah ... sounds almost like the plot of "KingsMen II".

While people who like "K2" are always taking a bit of a
risk because there's no sort of standard or quality control
on the stuff ... THIS was apparently an extra-hot batch
that had just hit the streets. The medics reported that
attempts to use naloxone had zero effect ... so likely
the stuff was not laced with any sort of narcotic to
boost the high.

However like the synthetic variants of morphine, the
synthetic variants of THC vary widely in potency and
outward effects. Clearly THIS batch was super-strong
and had more effect on the central nervous system
than expected.

Oddly, Connecticut WAS pondering legalizing
marijuana this spring, but the legislature just
never really got around to doing it despite strong
public support. THIS sort of scene is what your
state looks like on prohibitionism laddies ....

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