In recent years designers drugs have become the new fade for teens nation wide. Drugs like 2C-I-NBOMe, and 2C-C-NBOMe which mimic the effects of psychedelic mushrooms and LSD are being coming very popular. As they are not actually the illegal substances the chemicals in them are not banned or illegal in the United States so people have been importing them from overseas and selling them to kids. The buyers of these drugs are under the assumption that these drugs are okay to ingest when in reality they are very deadly. Many people are drying of violent overdoses from these synthetic drugs. The amounts needed to get high are very small but people are unaware of this so they take "normal" amounts thinking they're correct.
The first two boys, who got the countries attention, to suffer this fate were Christian Bjerk, 18, and Elijah Stai, age unknown. Found dead in the same town two days apart from each other both boys took designer drugs from the same online company. Since the compounds in the drugs were legal according to US regulation he couldn't technically be charged with selling controlled substances. He was however charged with "possession with intent to distribute controlled substance analog resulting in death, money laundering conspiracy and misbranding and forfeiture of $385,000". He pled guilty to all three and is now doing 20 years in prison for the deaths of these boys.
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