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‘Weaponized Pot’ A Growing Danger For Cops, Bratton Says

By MARK TOOR
Posted 8/10/15

Police Com­mis­sioner Wil­liam J. Bratton issued a warning Aug. 4 about “weap­on­ized marijuana,” a synthetic form of the drug that renders people both irrational and resistant to pain, making them difficult for police to handle.

“A number of individuals, when under the influence of this drug, are relatively impervious to pain and also have significant enhancement of their physical strength,” he said at a Police Headquarters press conference. “So our officers encountering these individuals face more-significant risk of having to subdue these individuals and potentially receiving injuries.”

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