Synthetic marijuana sees 33 people collapse simultaneously on the streets of New York

It was a strange sight on the street of New York when as many as 33 persons collapsed simultaneously because of the effects of an overdose of synthetic marijuana known as K2. Some has labeled it as a scene from an episode of The Walking Dead. Only, it wasn't zombies who could barely stand, but it was New Yorkers.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 13 July 2016.

The incident happened in Brooklyn and all of them were suffering from a bad batch of bad drugs. All the thirty-three people were hospitalized for a possible overdose on K2 which is a type of synthetic marijuana. The police first received a report of multiple people with an 'altered mental status' outside a Brooklyn community garden on Stockton Street. They found eight intoxicated individuals before discovering nine more.
As per witness accounts, they saw more than a dozen people passing out, vomiting, urinating and twitching in the middle of the street around 9.30am in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. The area is known as 'ground zero' for K2 addicts in the city. The people showed up and then quickly dropped to the ground - they flopped over hoods of cars, or crumpled onto the sidewalk. They appeared to be oblivious to their surroundings and just couldn't stay on their feet.


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