The product, also called PTC, for “fuck your skull”, circulates throughout the Sambre-Avesnois-Thiérache territory, warned the headmaster of a high school in Fourmies.
The principal of a high school in Fourmies (Nord) has issued an alert to parents of students about the circulation within his establishment of “buddha blues“, a synthetic cannabis, after the hospitalization of two students, learned AFP Friday, April 8 from the rectorate.
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“A product called Buddha blues, also called PTC “fart your skull”, is currently circulating throughout the Sambre-Avesnois-Thiérache territory.“, warned the headmaster, in his letter to parents dated April 4 and revealed by The voice of the North. It’s about “of a synthetic chemical substance that causes the effects of THC, the psychotropic molecule of cannabis“, he explains. This product is consumedas a liquid additive in electronic cigarettes“.
Highlighting “the extreme toxicity of this narcotic“, the headmaster cites among his effects”respiratory distress», «severe headaches», «tachycardia», «paranoia crisis», «paralysis” or “hallucinations“. According to the rectorate, the principal has “preferred to go fastto raise awareness among parents, aftertwo hospitalizations in the last 15 daysof high school students in his school who have used this drug. But “at the scale of the academy, no other case has been reported“, Including from the fifteen or so establishments in the same sector as the Fourmies high school, directly contacted by the rectorate, added the latter.
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Ten puffs of an electronic cigarette
In Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées), a 15-year-old schoolgirl was hospitalized on Monday after vaping this drug, a police source also indicated on Friday. The school alerted the emergency services after this student was vomiting and lost consciousness in the toilet. The victim, who returned to his class the next day, said he took a dozen puffs of an electronic cigarette from a comrade who himself filled his vaporizer with an e-liquid bought from a friend outside the establishment. school. The owner of the cigarette and the seller of the liquid were arrested and will be summoned before the juvenile judge in June, said this police source.
On the initiative of the principal, a preventive intervention will be carried out at the start of the spring holidays in order to raise awareness among the pupils. This synthetic drug, sold in liquid or powder form, has been circulating sporadically for several years in schools in France. During one of the first alerts made public, in an establishment in Brest, the narcotics brigade of Finistère had in particular reported “bouts of paranoia” among teenagers consumers of this product qualified as “highly dangerous“.
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