Spice, also known as K2, black mamba, or crazy clown, is a lab-produced, mind-altering drug that's soared in popularity in recent years.
Giant underground labs, many in China, are churning out thousands of pounds of the stuff.
The CDC announced on June 11 that as of May 2015, US poison centers received more than 3,500 calls related to use of the drug, up 229% from a year ago.
While marketed as a "safer alternative" to marijuana, spice is dangerous and can be deadly.
This is spice. It looks fairly harmless — like herbs in a shiny package — but it isn't.
Reports suggest that since 2009, drugs like spice, or synthetic marijuana, have killed roughly 1,000 Americans — many of them young people in high school.
The drugmakers change up the specific ingredients in the drugs so fast — and produce them in such massive quantities — that drug enforcement can't keep up.
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