Synthetic cannabis leads to poisoning effects worse than actual marijuana consumption

The poison control centers across the US are flooded by calls for poisoning from synthetic marijuana. This year nearly 3,572 calls have been placed, which is up 229 percent from the same period (January to May) from last year.

A report from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls for synthetic marijuana cases that saw a jump from 349 of January 2015 to 1,501 in April in 2015. That is an increase of close to 330 percent!

This is not a new problem as synthetic drugs have had a presence. However, the lab-engineered imitation pot continues to be popular while legal, medical marijuana continues to find acceptance across the country.

It is a terrible discovery that the side effects of marijuana are far less dangerous than those that have been recorded in relation to the synthetic stuff.

The Louisiana Poison Control director Mark Ryan said, “We had...

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