2. Is Your Health
Important To You?
“The uncertainty in the substance’s unregulated
production and makeup leaves more for the college
student to worry about than lost brain cells and red-eye.”
Says Thomas Granado, an economics freshman, at The
University Star.
3. Are You Smoking
Synthetic Chemicals?
Poison centers in 35 States have recorded 352 cases of
people being sickened by the substance.
K2 does the opposite of what is intended when the
use of this product causes such issues as heart
palpitations and respiratory problems.
4. The DEA Strikes Again
“We know from marijuana prohibition that law
enforcement has no control over the drug market and
the criminals who run it.”
Says Grant Smith, the federal policy coordinator in
the Drug Policies Alliance’s office of national affairs
in Washington, D.C.
5. We Cannot Afford
Another Ban
Lawmakers are spending millions in taxpayer dollars to
support the ban of K2.
6. Take your health into
your own hands!
Don’t support the hand that beats you.
7. Raise Awareness
Gaylord Lopez, a toxicologist, believes the substance
use can be pinpointed to the dorm-room setting
Toxicologists at three universities and two
governmental agencies have launched a study into the
effects of K2.
8. Work Cited Page
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