The number of incidents in the county shot up from 18 between April 2014 and March 2015 to 120 in the same period in 2016-17. On Thursday, police in Devon said they were investigating whether a 30-year-old man in Taunton had died after taking spice. In Lancashire 75% of incidents in 2016-17 happened after the ban. “Lots of people have just moved on from smoking cannabis to taking spice because it’s cheaper and more accessible,” she said. A couple of weeks ago there were ‘zombie’ incidents in Manchester because a batch was more concentrated.

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2017 13:39 UTC