250 leaders of Southern Arizona Interfaith assembled at St. John the Evangelist Catholic with the Tucson Police Department, Monsignor Raul Trevizo, Representative Macario Saldate, the Deputy County Attorney, and a representative of the US Dept. of Justice for a civic academy on 'spice.'

The synthetic drug is considered to induce young users to roam neighborhoods in an unnaturally hungry and thirsty state; officers responded to 930 calls involving spice over the previous 18 months, many involving overdoses.

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