strategy is to paint their foes as hypocrites. have you smoked marijuana? do you think street drugs should be legal? i definitely think medical marijuana should be. reporter: you don t think it is a street drug? i don t think so, i don t think alcohol is good, put it this way, if you compare alcohol to someone smoking a joint, if somebody is going to drink or get hammered and somebody smokes a joint, you re going out with him? my opinion, i m going out with a guy nice and calm. but the same argument could be made for marijuana and crack. that is nasty stuff. absolutely nasty. so asking your fellow council members, how many of you smoked crack?
it includes graphic pictures so if you don t like the sound of that, turn away now. okay. i m talking about this drug. it s called crocadil. a deadly street drug. first surfaced in russia. gives a high, they say, similar to that of heroin. but unlike heroin, it also eats your flesh from the inside out. and despite what you re looking at, these horrifying side effects, it has made its way across the ocean from russia with two cases popping up here in the u.s. just this past week. we ve had two cases this past week. that have occurred in arizona. and as far as i know, this is the first cases in the united states that are reported. so we re extremely frightened. cnn s amy here to explain. you have been looking at pretty squeamish videos today for yourself. actually showing you the edited version, toned down. not as graphic as you looked add, which i have avoided. we re reporting on two cases. you discovered there have been
pounds. it was so big they needed a tractor to carry it away. the ultimate fish story. elisabeth over to you and the doctor. elisabeth: there are scary new statistics on the dangerous effects on a new drug out there, a street drug known as bassol is led to other drug uses. other designer drugs are just as dangerous. what do parents need to know? we are here with medical a team dr. marc siegel. great to see you. thanks for being here. certainly a recent concern. bath salts sounds harmless but a lot of parents need to know this is anything but. it sounds like something you relax with. it is actually a stimulant. it causes seizures, heart
capsule. is it easy to make and therefore easy to find? it s a synthetic drug. it is made in a laboratory. it is not grown. similar to methaphetamine. there are advertisements for molly all over concerts, at parties, people will say where is molly? at concerts there is posters that say to get, to find molly, call this number. those are commercial advertisements for the street drug. what s concerning is it is not expensive. it is very popular. it is in vogue right now. and still just as dangerous. these two recent deaths in the four icu admissions are good opportunity to really talk to kids about the risks of this drug. arthel: is it something, doc, that you can get off cold turkey? or do you have a wean yourself off of it? there s, it doesn t have much 6 an addictive effect in the sense that it has a dependence reaction from withdrawal but the euphoria is enticing. it has an allure similar to alchohol.
will both testify. but first right now, brand new stories this hour. arthel: volunteers in oregon launching a new search for a boy missing for more than three years. why his mother is calling it a success. a popular street drug derived from ecstasy claiming the lives of two college students over the weekend. what you need to know about the dangers of molly. plus a legendary swimmer closing in on her long goal after five previous attempts. why diana nyad s team says she s closer than ever before. first breaking developments on the crisis in syria. the white house launching an all out political push to rally capitol hill support for a military strike against the asad regime. happy labor day. gregg: welcome to the second hour of happening now.