‘Legal’ pot sends five to hospital

Posted on March 22, 2017

Law enforcement officers and emergency medical services (EMS) responded to five drug overdoses related to synthetic cannabis (also known as “legal”) in less than a 12-hour span Tuesday.

Doctors’ Memorial Hospital EMS began receiving calls reporting the overdoses Monday around midnight; the calls kept coming in for the next 10 hours and the units remained on alert in the event of any additional calls.

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