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In this article, Jason Walker exposes the foil deadly cost of the K2 epidemic, and staff complicity in smuggling the drug into prisons. Jason is facing continuing retaliation and harassment for his writing and organizing, please see here for ways that you can put pressure on the prison administration to protect him: https://itsgoingdown.org/ urgent-call-to-action-defend-jason-walker-ffom-staffharassment/
The number of K2-related deaths in Texas prisons is mounting, year after year. Due to this drug being undetectable by prison drug-testing kits, it has become a favorite for prisoners, and prison officials who profit handsomely from smuggling it in.
This has caused other common prison drugs, like cocaine, marijuana and meth, to be discarded by prisoners who now have the ability to get high without worrying about failing drug tests. Prison staff have also adjusted to this epidemic by abandoning random drug testing, only doing so if the testee is "fingered" by another prisoner, or suspected of having a particular drug in his system. This ultimately increases the rate of positive hit results and allows TDCJ to save money by reducing the amount of drug test kits it uses annually.
From my experience, victims of K2 overdose experience heavy sweating, heart attack and panic attack-like symptoms before dropping dead. So it's highly possible that K2-related deaths are being recorded as heart attacks and heat strokes. A full record for these deaths may not exist.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) listed K2 as synthetic marijuana, which is a misnomer.
It's supposed to trigger the same receptors in the brain as THC - the component in marijuana that produces the high. But unlike THC, the chemical makeup of K2 is unique, and can cause hallucinations, seizures, heart attacks, aggressive behavior, and suicidal acts and behavior.
This is the same drug that made national headlines when, in the span of 24 hours, 70 people overdosed in New Haven, CT, Sarah Blaskey of the Miami Herald exposed in her August 21, 2018 story that the Florida Department of Corrections has issues with K2-related deaths.2 Prisons in Alabama and all over the nation are becoming infested with K2 and its issues.
In prison, K2 often contains traces of rat poison and roach spray, and doesn't contain a single chemical makeup, so basically...