OK, USA: Designer drug death bill becomes law after 2 dead after taking what they thought was 'research chemical' 2C-E ordered on Internet

[Emily]

Okla. designer drug death bill becomes law

Posted: 4:41 PM May 8, 2012
Okla. designer drug death bill becomes law
OKLAHOMA CITY - Synthetic drug manufacturers can now be charged with first degree murder under a new law in Oklahoma. The bill, co-sponsored by state senator Susan Paddack of Ada, was signed into law today...

Background from 2011:

Second Victim Dies After Taking Designer Drug In Konawa

Posted: May 13, 2011 10:10 AM PDT Updated: May 13, 2011 6:57 PM PDT
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Seminole County authorities said a second person has died after taking the drug first thought to be 2C-E at a home in Konawa last weekend.

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After chemical analysis of the drug, officials now believe the actual substance was another powerfully-hallucinogenic designer drug know as Bromo-DragonFLY....

Bromo-DragonFLY is supposedly even more toxic than 2C-E, and is taken at much lower doses, so the partiers most likely took overdoses if they thought it was 2C-E. The article below was written when the drug taken was still thought to be 2C-E.

Mom Speaks Out After Daughter Dies In Mass Drug Overdose At Konawa Party

"He was gasping. I didn't understand what he was saying. I yelled at him and told him to calm down and I said. 'Robert, I can't understand what you are saying.' And all he screamed was Stacy's dead," Beckman said.

Jewell was one of eight people who began having seizures and coughing up blood after consuming a liquid version of the drug 2C-E.

"She just kept having one seizure after another," said Ricky Prindle, who attended the party. "After she came out of one, she would say a little bit like she was hallucinating, telling us to get away from her, and then she would go into another bad seizure and cough up more blood."

Prindle said he was one of four people at the party who did not take the drug.

"When the officers arrived on scene before the ambulance, they just seemed awestruck by what was going on."
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Prindle said Weddle bought the drug off the internet from a company in China....