Police: Safety Harbor teen smoked legal herbal incense drug before drowning

Police say he smoked a legal herbal incense before falling.

Smoke shop owners take drug fight to federal court

GREENEVILLE — Four local smoke shop owners have escalated the legal battle over the sale of synthetic drugs to federal court, challenging the recently approved bans in Kingsport, Bristol and Sullivan County on various constitutional grounds.

Police: Safety Harbor teen didn't smoke K2 before drowning

By Will Hobson, Times Staff Writer Monday, January 9, 2012 CLEARWATER — A 19-year-old Safety Harbor man did not smoke the synthetic drug "K2" before drowning Sunday in Kapok Park creek, police announced Monday, correcting their earlier report. Logan Matthew Kushner and a friend had used the herbal incense "Jazz" prior to Kushner's drowning, not K2, as Clearwater police initially reported Sunday ...

Police: Safety Harbor teen had smoked synthetic drug before drowning

By Will Hobson and Drew Harwell, Times Staff Writers Monday, January 9, 2012 CLEARWATER — Police say the last thing 19-year-old Logan Kushner did before he went for a swim in the creek where he drowned Sunday morning was smoke "Jazz," a legal herbal incense that users say mimics the effects of marijuana. "It was just one of those accidents," P.A. Kushner, Logan's mother, said Monday outside her ...

Fake drugs, real consequences

It’s known by several names — herbal incense, K2, Spice, Happy Shaman are just a few —- and drug users learned long ago that smoking it gives a similar affect to marijuana with no fear of failing a drug test.