Posted: 11:14 a.m. Friday, April 5, 2013  The Auburn Drug Story
Explained  Shaun Assael did a pretty poor job of making his case
as to why we should care about the usage of synthetic marijuana,
or "spice", at Auburn in his report for It's a badly summarized
version of his much longer article for ESPN the Magazine, and
that expanded piece does a better job of it.  It's still not
great, and all things considered, Assael may still be holding
Auburn to an unfairly high level of accountability here. SBN's
Jason Kirk makes that case pretty strongly right here.  I am
still not 100% sure what to think, but I do think I can explain
Assael's side better than he actually did. If this is too long,
just skip down to the "In Conclusion" section at the end.  1.
Synthetic marijuana is worse than regular marijuana.  This much
is true. It is worse. Here's some of what Assael wrote on it:
The problem was that no two batches of this "synthetic
marijuana" were exactly the same. One group of leaves could be
sprayed with higher co