Synthetic Marijuana Death: Double Lung Transplant Recipient, 13, Dies After Smoking Fake Pot

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Synthetic Marijuana Death: Double Lung Transplant Recipient, 13, Dies After Smoking Fake Pot

206 days ago 3 comments Categories: Lifestyle Tags: Synthetic Marijuana, Death, Smoking Fake Pot

A Pennsylvania eighth-grader who became ill after smoking synthetic marijuana and had a double lung transplant has died.

Tonya Rice stated that her 13-year-old son, Brandon, died Thursday morning at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh at UPMC.

The boy smoked the fake marijuana out of a plastic PEZ candy dispenser. The chemicals in the drugs caused extensive damage to his lungs. Brandon was put on a respirator in June and had a double lung transplant in September.

The boy's mother says anti-rejection drugs he'd taken since the transplants weakened his immune system and made him unable to fight a recent infection.

Gov. Tom Corbett signed a law outlawing such substances in Pennsylvania a few days after the boy smoked the substances. The ban took effect in August.

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	Josh wrote 206 Days Ago (positive)
	1 Exactly, everything that could of went wrong, did in this story, yes the Fake pot contibuted to his death and I Do not endorse it, but come on.. He deserves a DArwin Award for this, just sayin..

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	Kayyy wrote 206 Days Ago (neutral)
	0 lol damn. why was he getting high? what the fuck is the root of that BS..

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	Josh wrote 206 Days Ago (positive)
	1 Why was he smoking out of a PLASTIC Pez Despenser??

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