Police are warning residents about the use of synthetic marijuana after a South Brunswick woman was found unresponsive last week.
South Brunswick police and EMS personnel responded to a township home where a 22-year-old female was convulsing and vomiting on April 21, according to police Lt. James Ryan. Officers found her lying on the ground, shaking uncontrollably.
Friends indicated that the woman had been smoking synthetic marijuana, according to police.
The Monmouth Junction First Aid Squad transported the woman to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.
As a result, the South Brunswick Police Department reissued a statement from the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System, which is warning people not to use products sold as synthetic marijuana, often called “spice” or “K2.”
Last week, approximately 30 people were admitted to hospitals in New Jersey after suffering the consequences of using these products, the agency stated.
Symptoms are severe agitation, seizures, renal failure and other life-threatening reactions.
For more information, contact a poison expert at 800-222-1222.