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Two Roswell teens were hospitalized Sunday for smoking that fake-ass bud, the AJC reports.

Synthetic pot, known on the street as K2 or Spice, was what put the teens in the hospital, Roswell Police Lieutenant James McGee said.

The hospital called the Roswell police, who sent an officer to investigate, McGee said. Officials ran the usual tests for methamphetamines, marijuana and cocaine, and all came up “negative,” McGee said.

“We were trying to figure out what they were on,” he said.

“After questioning them, they said they were smoking Spice, and at the time, our officers didn’t have a clue as to what Spice was.”

The product, which is sold in smoke shops, is marketed as incense. But some crafty folks smoke it in an attempt to get high. Tuesday’s WSB-TV report titled “Powerful ‘fake pot’ sold in Georgia” probably helped boost sales 4,000 percent. State lawmakers will try to ban this menace, as they did marijuana-flavored lollipops, in 5 … 4 … 3 …

Full disclosure: Your humble correspondent, who at one time lived in Cobb County where you’d eat sand just to escape the drudgery, once tried this product. It gave him a headache.

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Last Monday, state Rep. Jan Jones, R-Alpharetta, fired the first shot in the battle between North Fulton residents and the Fulton County Commission. The aim of these highly educated, high-income, and mostly Republican residents: Split from the terrible fiend named Fulton and revive Milton County, which fell on hard times after a boll weevil infestation and the Great Depression. In 1932, it merged with Fulton County.

Jones filed a bill that would allow former counties to “re-create” themselves. There’s no dancing around the fact that it’s meant for Roswell, Alpharetta, Mountain Park and the newly created cities of Johns Creek and Milton to revive Milton County. The House Communications office even announced it as such.

It would also mean Fulton County loses one of its wealthiest areas.

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