U.S: Designer drugs put youths at risk, but recipe changes tie officers’ hands

Montana Brown’s red Nike sneakers sat on the front porch for months, still smeared in cow manure. A week before he died, the 15-year-old honors student had taken an illustrated book to pastures near his Frisco home looking for psychedelic mushrooms. He didn’t find any, so he tried what he thought was LSD on Dec. 14. Convulsions began within an hour after he ingested 25I, a synthetic hallucinogen more potent than LSD. The Collin County medical examiner ruled that his death was connected to the drug. Police and prosecutors say the law isn’t being updated fast enough to help them get such drugs off the streets.
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