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But early Sunday morning, his life ended suddenly. Investigators say around 2:30 a.m., Kushner was at Kapok Park in Clearwater with a friend. They were smoking synthetic marijuana that they had bought legally at a gas station.
"He went swimming. His friend was a little bit concerned because it was getting near curfew, so his friend convinced him to get out of the water, but he wouldn't leave the park with him," says Joelle Castelli with the City of Clearwater.
That friend tried to reach Kushner over the phone. When that failed, he asked another friend who lives close to the park to check on him.
"That's when the witness found him unresponsive, floating in the water," Castelli says.
Clearwater Police don't suspect foul play in his death, though they do think synthetic marijuana is to blame.
"It's been shown to cause some psychosis," Castelli says. "It's synthetic cannabis, and just because you can buy it at the gas station doesn't mean it's safe."
It became illegal in Florida last summer. Since then, some companies have changed their chemical compounds just enough to have a more powerful, but legal, kind of synthetic marijuana.
"It's just sad to hear something tragic like this happened to a good person like Logan Kushner was," Haye says. "He was a good kid, and he'll be missed."
http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/23...uana-suspected-in-19-year-olds-drowning-death
But early Sunday morning, his life ended suddenly. Investigators say around 2:30 a.m., Kushner was at Kapok Park in Clearwater with a friend. They were smoking synthetic marijuana that they had bought legally at a gas station.
"He went swimming. His friend was a little bit concerned because it was getting near curfew, so his friend convinced him to get out of the water, but he wouldn't leave the park with him," says Joelle Castelli with the City of Clearwater.
That friend tried to reach Kushner over the phone. When that failed, he asked another friend who lives close to the park to check on him.
"That's when the witness found him unresponsive, floating in the water," Castelli says.
Clearwater Police don't suspect foul play in his death, though they do think synthetic marijuana is to blame.
"It's been shown to cause some psychosis," Castelli says. "It's synthetic cannabis, and just because you can buy it at the gas station doesn't mean it's safe."
It became illegal in Florida last summer. Since then, some companies have changed their chemical compounds just enough to have a more powerful, but legal, kind of synthetic marijuana.
"It's just sad to hear something tragic like this happened to a good person like Logan Kushner was," Haye says. "He was a good kid, and he'll be missed."
http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/23...uana-suspected-in-19-year-olds-drowning-death
