Mom: ‘I Didn’t Know What Synthetic Marijuana Was Until My Son Died’
Police covered the dangers of synthetic drugs at a topic forum Tuesday.
Karen Dobner said her son, Max, never gave her cause to worry. He never spoke ill of anyone. He never lost his temper. He was never disrespectful or rude. He was a health nut and refused to eat at Burger King or McDonald’s. She has no answer for what led Max to use synthetic marijuana on June 14, 2011, but she believes it was because he thought it was healthier than marijuana. Dobner spoke out against that false assumption at a village of Woodridge topic forum Tuesday night. After taking synthetic marijuana – or poison sprayed on leaves, as she calls it – Max called his brother to say his heart was racing and he was "freaking out." Later Karen received a call that her son, driving at almost 100 mph, had plowed thrown an intersection, hit…
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Mike Nober
10:35 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Kids are finding more and more ingenious ways to get legally high. If dangerous synthetic drugs go away, they'll use common household items like toothpaste to give them an ecstasy like high. Toothpasting is as scary as any street drug out there and is a quick growing fad. Us parents need to be especially watchful these days. more ›