While I have no intension of diving deeply into the issues of guns or drugs, they obviously are not well combined.

By virtue of living in an area where many people use the designer drug, Spice, K2 or fake pot, my family and I have observed behavior probably only we can describe impartially.  In fact, when "friends" partake of this chemical concoction, they are laughing like hyenas at about 10 minutes and at 30 minutes they are arguing, physically fighting or even trying to kill each other.  Some friends.  But that's just one observation of many disturbing "Spice" effects we've seen.

We've seen that Spice users are not just at the shelter.  They are teenagers, working parents and people in the military.  This does not bode well for civil society.

Observing the remarkable increase in near daily shootings we've seen in Anchorage over the last couple of years, we definitely feel some portion of those can be attributed to the rise in Spice use.