'Watching our mates drop dead': New Zealand's synthetic cannabis crisis

Neighbourhoods being ‘swallowed up’ by the drug, with health officials calling for urgent action

Daniel started using synthetic cannabis when it was legal. He remembers a mild to mid-range high that was short acting. “It was fantastic,” he says.

That was before the drug was banned by the government four years ago and bootleg batches began to surface on the streets of Auckland. Now, taking synthetic cannabis in New Zealand can be deadly. “It wasn’t anything like this stuff you see now. We are watching all of our mates just drop dead around us. That’s a lot of trauma,” Daniel says.

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