People have been overdosing en masse on the dangerous synthetic marijuana known as K2 — and Chinese labs are partly to blame

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• Earlier this month, more than 100 people overdosed on synthetic marijuana in New Haven, Connecticut.
• The incident was just the most recent mass-casualty incident involving the troubling drug. 
• Synthetic marijuana poses a legislative conundrum because foreign labs keep manufacturing new compounds to evade US drug laws. 

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A bad batch of synthetic marijuana has been blamed for a recent mass overdose in New Haven, Connecticut, involving more than 100 people in three days.

The majority of calls started coming in last Wednesday morning, with dozens of people passing out and vomiting on the New Haven Green.

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