What ‘Synthetic Drugs' Really Look Like

White Lady, Mr. Nice Guy, Sour D and Plur. With their shiny packaging and intriguing names, it's hard for some to take them seriously.

But for Jill Head, those little packets may be the scariest thing she's seen go through her lab.

"I want people to know that there is no association to these drugs with marijuana,” she told the NBC Washington News4 I-Team. “I've heard words like ‘legal weed’ or ‘synthetic marijuana’ but these are scarily misleading." 

Head and her team of forensic chemists work at the Drug Enforcement Administration's Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Virginia. They analyze and identify all of the suspected drugs seized by DEA agents throughout the world.

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