New synthetic marijuana hits the streets, hospitalizes teen for 11 days

There's a brand new synthetic marijuana hitting the streets and it is completely different than anything the experts have seen in the past.

An 18-year-old from Granite City who smoked it and ended up in the hospital. The teen's mother, Onashay Haeffner, describes the day she found her son after he overdosed.

"He was drawled up on the couch like a 3-year-old. He wouldn't talk to me, was slobbering, and was crying really easy," she said.

Soon Onashay's son had a 106 degree fever and was having seizures, but that was tame compared to what hospital tests revealed.

"They rushed him here with renal failure and 85 percent of his muscle mass in his legs had been gone," Onashay said.

The teen's doctor, Dr. Anthony Scalzo of SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center, said, "He had a muscle inflammation that was so severe it prevented him from walking for a...

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