Like most monster stories, this tale of what CNN calls a “flesh-eating zombie drug” stalking the land does not appear to be true.
I don't smoke weed (it doesn't agree with me) but I'm all for legalization for the simple reason that we need to have a much less paternalistic understanding of narcotics. It'd change so much.
The crack epidemic didn't exist, either. It's all reefer madness of one form or another; how your privileged white children will be maimed, horribly disfigured murdered or otherwise annihilated by some fucked-up concoction "They" (the immigrants/brown people/boogeyman du jour) ply on the street corners right where Junior and Janie will mistake it for a Charms Blow Pop.
It takes about ten minutes of Googling to determine that crocodyl is a drug of last resort that evolved in an ecosystem wildly disparate from our own. But oh, fuck, "bath salts." If you've never heard of it, it must be Omega-terrible. Meanwhile, have some ritalin.