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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Increase in poisoning reveals dangers of 'synthetic marijuana,' CDC says 🌿Increase in poisoning reveals dangers of 'synthetic marijuana,' CDC says
Synthetic cannabinoids have been marketed as safe, legal, herbal alternatives to marijuana, but the data from U.S. poison control centers say otherwise. Poison center calls linked to synthetic cannabinoids have spiked roughly fourfold in just the first few months of 2015, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The sudden rise shows that tighter regulation of such substances is sorely needed, according to the authors of the CDC report.
“Multiple other recent outbreaks suggest a need for greater public health surveillance and awareness, targeted public health messaging, and enhanced efforts to remove these products from the market,” the researchers led by CDC epidemiologist Royal Law wrote in the center's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Synthetic cannabinoids (whose aliases include synthetic marijuana, spice, K2, black mamba and crazy clown) are made by spraying synthetic psychoactive chemicals onto plant matter, which can then be...
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