Tailoring Regimes for a Designer Drug: Developing Civil Liability for Retailers of Synthetic Marijuana

Abstract

Over the past two years, homeless shelters in cities across America found themselves in crisis as residents have overdosed, sometimes en masse, on a drug known as "synthetic marijuana:' The drug's effects are devastating, discriminating, and bizarre - sending users to the emergency room for seizures, heart attacks, and kidney failure; showing ruthless concentration among homeless populations; and creating "zombie-like" effects in users.