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BLAINE, Minnesota — After nearly a dozen teenagers overdosed and one died from taking a hallucinogen at a house party, investigators determined the substance was a version of a banned rave-party drug that can be purchased online.

Would-be users need to realize that just because they get a designer drug, synthetic marijuana or "bath salts" from someone they know or over the Internet, it can't be considered safe, even if it carries a label listing ingredients, Payne said.

They have no way to know what's really in it, the conditions under which it was manufactured or the country of origin, he said. And there hasn't been enough research on many of these substances.

"This stuff is dangerous and you're playing Russian roulette when you put this stuff in your body," Payne said. "Bad things are happening to people who abuse this stuff."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42159444/ns/health-health_care/

For all those on these boards who thought it was a good idea to encourage kids to take the illegal drug Ecstacy by showing them how to use it "safely" - I remember asking how you could possibly know what was in an illegal drug and being pooh poohed as being ridiculous and in denial about how kids will "do it anyway."

Still feel that way folks? How many kids have to die before we will own up to being parents?