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Legal Highs with Lethal Consequences
They’re called Legal Highs, drugs that mimic illegal substances like marijuana and cocaine, but are just chemically different enough to pass through customs on their way from labs in China and India. Now they’re causing a rash of overdoses in cities across the country. Are legalization and regulation the answer?
By Barbara Bogaev • • 52m ListenThey’re called Legal Highs, drugs that mimic illegal substances like marijuana and cocaine, but are just chemically different enough to pass through customs on their way from labs in China and India. Now they’re causing a rash of overdoses in cities across the country. Guest host Barbara Bogaev explores what to do when legal drugs are more dangerous than the illicit ones they’re replacing.
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