Federal authorities are cracking down on new designer drugs like N-Bomb, also known as "Legal LSD," hoping legislation aimed at making the synthetic hallucinogen illegal to possess in the Bay State will prevent more teen overdose deaths.

"There's no such thing as a safe synthetic drug. One dose can kill you," DEA spokesman Anthony Pettigrew said of N-Bomb, a synthetic drug gaining popularity among teens that can appear in a variety of forms. "Anytime someone uses any synthetic drug, including N-Bomb, they're playing Russian roulette."

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Senate Prez Frets Over Recreational Concept

Bringing medical marijuana to the Bay State has turned into a "total mess," Senate President Stanley Rosenberg declared yesterday, and state officials need to make sure any ballot question to legalize recreational marijuana is carefully worded to avoid more of the same.

"The ballot question had a lot of problems in it, it's been very difficult to implement and doing 30 or so licenses across the commonwealth, it has been very, very hard and it is not good that it has taken this long," Rosenberg said yesterday during an appearance on Boston Herald Radio's "Morning Meeting" program.

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Bay State lawmen are sounding off against a Supreme Judicial Court ruling yesterday that says an officer catching a whiff of unburnt weed doesn't have cause to search a car, while legalization advocates are calling it a win for civil liberties.

"How is it any different from stopping somebody with an odor of alcohol on their breath?" asked Wayne Sampson, executive director of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association. "The same principle should apply."

Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson said, "Rulings like this do nothing but handcuff the good guys and free the ones that want to go out and commit crimes against us. It is becoming harder and harder for cops to do their jobs and easier for criminals to get the cover they need."

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