Potent Synthetic Marijuana Vexes NCAA

In an eastern Kansas crime lab, Jeremy Morris gets a daily lesson in evolution. The senior forensic scientist for the Johnson County Sheriff's Office is troubled by the high, the damage and the new of synthetic marijuana.

Problem is, the stuff seems to get newer each day.

"The drug testing has not caught up," Morris. "We're just now figuring out how to test for some of the original compounds. If you're a college student and you really like to do drugs and you don't want to get caught, go ahead and use these. They're not going to catch you."

And maybe not for a while. Synthetic marijuana -- with street names like K2 and Spice -- is a designer drug with a high "100 times" as potent as regular ...

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