At least 14 people were hospitalized in downtown Los Angeles over the weekend in what is believed to be the second mass synthetic marijuana overdose in a week.
The victims were all located on the 400 block of East 5th Street, in LA's Skid Row area, and found by emergency crews who arrived at the location around 10:30am.
The scenes recalled an even more disturbing sight on Friday, when 18 people from the area were hospitalized due to a bad batch of Spice, a brand of synthetic marijuana.
All of those checked at the scene Monday exhibited the same symptoms: combative behavior, altered mental states and sometimes seizures.
'We don't have toxicological confirmation, but it's presumably Spice, which is a synthetic type of cannabis or marijuana,' Dr Marc Eckstein, the Los Angeles Fire Department medical director and EMS bureau commander, told ABC.
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