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Thanks for staying with us, we're talking about substance abuse in Nevada with David
Marlon, he's the president of The Solutions Foundation, and he is on the Nevada Working
Group Task Force to Stop Drug Abuse, something like that, the third point that you brought
up that is a priority you said is getting synthetic marijuana off the streets you wrote.
Tell us a little bit about synthetic marijuana, it's also legal and it's in these "head shops"
as well?
You know there's some ambiguity as far as the law, the DEA posted some national regulations
saying it is a banned substance, however I don't know of a Nevada state law making it
illegal and there's many smoke shops you can go into and go buy this stuff over the counter.
They may call it PotPourri, or Spice, or K2, there's various names and it's basically something
that looks like marijuana that's been sprayed with a chemical, they call it synthetic marijuana,
and folks would smoke it to get a high.
Ok, is this something that people who are interested in obtaining medical marijuana
but can't get, are they turning to that too?
I've never heard of someone who has tried to use this for a legitimate purpose, some
startling facts I heard is that, one in nine students, talking about middleschool and highschool
students had tried it, so there daunting, the amount of people who are trying this synthetic
marijuana, it's most dangerous that regular marijuana, also higher instances of psychosis
reported, in the beginning they were thinking you'd be able to evade a drug test because
it wasn't coming up on some of the earlier drug tests, however now there's drug tests
that we're able to detect it.