CHICAGO, United States — An outbreak of synthetic marijuana laced with rat poison has killed three and sickened more than 100 in the US Midwest, with officials worried about potentially more cases to come. Synthetic marijuana is made with chemicals applied to dried plant material, and sold in small foil packages with street names such as Spice and K2. Officials in three Midwestern states are raising the alarm over recent outbreaks of illnesses caused by brodifacoum, a lethal blood thinner used in rat poison, which was in the synthetic pot that victims consumed. They are not regulated and people don’t know what chemicals may be in them, like rat poison,” Shah said. Investigators allege the drugs had traces of rat poison.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 11, 2018 00:56 UTC