33 sickened in apparent mass drug overdose in New York City

“In previous years, you might see the same five or 10 guys around, and now it’s five new guys every half-hour walking around smoking it”, said Bed-Stuy resident Jason Reis. The remaining victim’s location is unclear. The owner told PIX11 News no K2 was found at his store.

An officer at the scene rated the day as the worst he has ever seen.

Bedford-Stuyvesant residents also told PIX11 that a bodega on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Broadway sells the K2.

Brian Arthur live-streamed the scene on Facebook earlier today when he encountered some of the victims staggering, struggling to stand or fighting with police.

DNA Info confirmed that Big Boy Deli is the bodega rumored to be providing the drug.

“The sad thing is the police know where they’re selling it”.

How officials are reacting: They’ve been raiding suppliers – last fall, police seized 2 million packets of K2 in the Bronx.

People who overdosed with the drug were described as having “altered mental states”. “Then they fell to the floor”, said Rafael Perez, 50, a worker at a nearby barbershop.

“They were pouring out in the street”. Last year, more than 6,000 went to emergency rooms in New York City alone in connection with K2, the New York Times reported.

K2 and other synthetic marijuana substances are illegal in NY.

The Health Department said it “recorded a spike in K2-related emergency room visits” connected to the incident in Brooklyn.

The synthetic cannabinoids and chemicals used on K2 or spice are making users act incredibly odd with most media outlets reporting that people are passing out on sidewalks, stumbling out into traffic and “looking and acting like zombies”.

K2 is basically herbs sprayed with all kinds of chemicals that’s supposed to give users a “marijuana-like” high, but also makes people go “totally insane”, as NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton described the effects. Some of the synthetic marijuana users shuffled around the streets in a bumbling daze, while many others simply passed out on the ground in public. Some synthetic cannabinoids have been legal in the England in the past, but since the Psychoactive Substances Act of 2016 came into effect most have become illegal.

K2, also known as Spice, AK-47 or Dank can cause extreme anxiety, confusion, paranoia and hallucinations.