4 Arrested in Connecticut Synthetic Marijuana Investigation

[LuGoJ]

Police in Connecticut have arrested four people while investigating a batch of synthetic marijuana that sickened about a dozen people, including five who were hospitalized.

Willimantic police say they arrested a dealer of "K2" synthetic marijuana and three buyers Tuesday. Authorities wouldn't say whether the dealer suspect they arrested sold the drug to the people who got sick Monday.

All five of the people hospitalized have been discharged. Police believe they used synthetic marijuana laced with the hallucinogenic PCP.

Thirty-nine-year-old Thomas Gasper Jr. was charged with possession of narcotics with intent to sell and other crimes. The three others were charged with narcotics possession and released.

Gasper was unavailable for comment. He's detained on $250,000 bail. It's not clear if he has lawyer.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/arrested-connecticut-synthetic-marijuana-investigation-30845770

Oh man, here we go again. Queue the decades long tales about synthetic marijuana all being laced with PCP now.

 

[TheRapperGoneBad]

All five of the people hospitalized have been discharged. Police believe they used synthetic marijuana laced with the hallucinogenic PCP.

Gotta be some sorta test, how about doin that first and not throwing out a wild and highly unlikely assumption..

It's a fairly unknown synthetic cannabis why do we need to jump to a different drug when thus is well in the affect profile.

 

[szuko000]

Well synthetic cannabis and the word cannabis appear in the news a lot. Now a word like PCP doesnt so this is a "new story"

 

[jammin83]

The only place I even hear about PCP is the hood. It's really not that common anymore AFAIK. Ketamine and RC dissos are way more common but it remains in most five panel screens for some reason.

 

[szuko000]

It's on the test most likely because it's metabolite is cheap and easy to identify in urine. Expended tests offer more but ar also more expensive and I doubt the "standard 5 panal" has less to do with what's most common and more to do with what's cheapest, yet still common enough. But I don't actually know any of that for a fact.