How Minnesota can combat synthetic drugs
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Syringes and a synthetic drug wrapper collected by CHUM shelter employee Shawn Carr, of Duluth, Minn., are shown Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Staffers at the nonprofit CHUM agency say they have caught more than 100 people smoking, snorting or injecting synthetics on its property in the past year.
AP Photo/Duluth News Tribune, Clint Austin
A special legislative state panel released a set of recommendations Wednesday to curb the use and distribution of synthetic drugs in Minnesota.
State Rep. Erik Simonson, DFL-Duluth, chairman of the Select Committee on Controlled Substances and Synthetic Drugs, joins The Daily Circuit to discuss combating synthetic drug use.
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