[Video] 33 People Taken to the Hospital After Overdosing on Synthetic Marijuana
The Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn looked like a zombie apocalypse Tuesday morning as 33 people were taken to area hospitals after overdosing on synthetic marijuana. Bodies were laying all over the sidewalk and others were vomiting and displaying other symptoms of illness. Police and health officials are warning that synthetic marijuana poses a severe health risk. (That’s why I always smoke the real stuff…LOL)
Why2K? I thought that was resolved 16 1/2 years ago.
Calls started coming in Tuesday morning that numerous people appeared to be overdosing in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Witnesses reported seeing victims lying on the sidewalk, shaking and leaning against trees and fire hydrants.
Thirty-three people were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. It was not immediately clear what drugs the victims had ingested, but police said some of the victims had been smoking K2.
Dennis Gonzalez of Bushwick told WNBC-TV that K2 use in that part of Brooklyn is out of control.
“It’s gotten out of hand,” Gonzalez said. “They even sleep in the street, we have to walk around them. It’s just too much to keep under control.”
The New York Post described the scene as zombie-like and a Brooklyn resident echoed the assessment.
“It looked like a scene out of ‘The Walking Dead,’” Brian Arthur said, recalling seeing people mindlessly wandering the streets.