Getting high, getting expelled at the Naval Academy

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The U.S. Naval Academy expelled three more students for using or possessing synthetic marijuana, school officials announced Thursday.

The continuing investigation into fake pot – which doesn’t show up on traditional drug tests — has yielded 11 expulsions at the Annapolis service academy since Jan. 20. Known as “Spice,” synthetic marijuana is banned by the Defense Department and the Navy.

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