Posted August 5, 2015 9:07 PM ET; Last updated August 6, 2015 8:53 PM ET
Synthetic pot known as "K2" on the streets has been on the rise.
Photo: AP
[From article]
The NYPD released a 2002 video of a man on the psychotic drug PCP in Iowa and claimed it was recent footage of a New Yorker under the influence of synthetic marijuana.[From article]
The clip shows a naked man screaming wildly, squatting in the street, and scrambling up a fence, defying Taser guns with 'super human strength'.
It was played during a press conference on Tuesday as Police Commissioner Bill Bratton issued an 'urgent' warning that 'weaponized marijuana' - or K2 - is a growing concern for New York officers.
But it has since emerged the scaremongering clip is 12 years old, filmed in Des Moines for the TV show COPS, and depicts a man on PCP, not K2.
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A spokesman for the NYPD told Gothamist the video was merely 'shown to depict the type of behavior sometimes associated with "excited delirium syndrome"'.
A spokesman for the NYPD told Gothamist the video was merely 'shown to depict the type of behavior sometimes associated with "excited delirium syndrome"'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3186598/How-NYPD-released-scaremongering-video-psychotic-naked-Iowa-man-high-PCP-2002-claimed-New-Yorker-synthetic-marijuana.html
REVEALED: Scaremongering NYPD video of psychotic naked New Yorker high on 'weaponized marijuana' was actually of Iowa man high on PCP in 2002
Police issued a public warning over use of the synthetic marijuana 'K2'
Released two videos showing two crazed users of the drug, both naked
But the clips are actually from TV show COPS in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2002
And the men in the video had taken psychotic drug PCP - not K2
NYPD spokesman insists they did not say they were on K2 or in New York
By MIA DE GRAAF FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and JAMES DUNN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 20:07 EST, 5 August 2015 | UPDATED: 09:35 EST, 6 August 2015
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[From article]
The drug, which cops say is prevalent in the homeless community, is a cheap high that also increases body temperature, leading users to strip naked.
“A better term for it might be weaponized marijuana,” Bratton told reporters at a press conference at police headquarters.
“A number of individuals, when under the influence of this drug, are relatively impervious to pain and also have significant enhancement of their physical strength,” he said.
“So our officers encountering these individuals face more significant risk of having to subdue these individuals and potentially receiving injuries.”
Spice users are impervious to traditional takedown methods used by cops, such as tasers and mace, officials said.
[. . .]
“You’re going to see much more of it in the short term,” Bratton said of the drug. “Our concern in the potential overdose and death, the incredible number of people going to hospitals as well as those that we take into custody.”
Bratton added that while local politicians look to loosen marijuana laws, the synthetic stuff is wreaking havoc across the city.
“Ironically, even as the trend is to decriminalize and effectively pay less attention to marijuana, the synthetic marijuana issue is one of great and growing concern here in New York City,” he said.
http://nypost.com/2015/08/04/weaponized-weed-that-makes-people-strip-naked-wreaking-havoc-in-nyc/
‘Weaponized weed’ triggering nude, psychotic rampages in NYC
By Daniel Prendergast
New York Post
August 4, 2015 | 6:12pm
REVEALED: Scaremongering NYPD video of psychotic naked New Yorker high on 'weaponized marijuana' was actually of Iowa man high on PCP in 2002
Police issued a public warning over use of the synthetic marijuana 'K2'
Released two videos showing two crazed users of the drug, both naked
But the clips are actually from TV show COPS in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2002
And the men in the video had taken psychotic drug PCP - not K2
NYPD spokesman insists they did not say they were on K2 or in New York
By MIA DE GRAAF FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and JAMES DUNN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 20:07 EST, 5 August 2015 | UPDATED: 09:35 EST, 6 August 2015
[From article]
The drug, which cops say is prevalent in the homeless community, is a cheap high that also increases body temperature, leading users to strip naked.
“A better term for it might be weaponized marijuana,” Bratton told reporters at a press conference at police headquarters.
“A number of individuals, when under the influence of this drug, are relatively impervious to pain and also have significant enhancement of their physical strength,” he said.
“So our officers encountering these individuals face more significant risk of having to subdue these individuals and potentially receiving injuries.”
Spice users are impervious to traditional takedown methods used by cops, such as tasers and mace, officials said.
[. . .]
“You’re going to see much more of it in the short term,” Bratton said of the drug. “Our concern in the potential overdose and death, the incredible number of people going to hospitals as well as those that we take into custody.”
Bratton added that while local politicians look to loosen marijuana laws, the synthetic stuff is wreaking havoc across the city.
“Ironically, even as the trend is to decriminalize and effectively pay less attention to marijuana, the synthetic marijuana issue is one of great and growing concern here in New York City,” he said.
http://nypost.com/2015/08/04/weaponized-weed-that-makes-people-strip-naked-wreaking-havoc-in-nyc/
‘Weaponized weed’ triggering nude, psychotic rampages in NYC
By Daniel Prendergast
New York Post
August 4, 2015 | 6:12pm
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