Opening Activity

The increased use of synthetic drugs is causing more deaths, two already this year in Minnesota.  They resemble drugs such as cocaine and marijuana.  However, they are dangerous and it is easier to overdose than with the real drugs.  The first Minnesotan, a 19-year old, died in Blaine last spring, and the second, a 22-year old, died very recently from shooting himself with an "altered state of mind".  These synthetic drugs are legal but very unpredictable.