Thirty-three people were hospitalized for a possible
overdose on K2, a type of synthetic marijuana, in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. Witnesses
reported seeing more than a dozen people passing out, vomiting, urinating and
twitching in the middle of the street around 9.30am in the Bedford-Stuyvesant
neighborhood.
They reportedly reacted to the drug almost simultaneously near Broadway and Myrtle Ave, an intersection that has become known as 'ground zero' for K2 addicts in the city.
'It was a horrible scene,' resident Brian Arthur told the New
York Daily News. 'Some of them were motionless. This is nothing you'd
want your kids to see.'
Arthur, 38, filmed the incredible scene and posted it on his
Facebook, showing people who couldn't stand up straight and had to be held up
by officers as they waited for a stretcher.
'This is no joke over here right now, this is tragic,'
Arthur says as his camera moves from one passed-out New Yorker to the
next. 'This is crazy. Tell your kids, tell your family, stay off of that
man.'
Arthur said it was mostly young, teenage boys who he saw
overdosing in the street.
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