"The findings indicate that students who report using synthetic marijuana are possibly on a very concerning health trajectory, which is particularly serious given that synthetic marijuana use is relatively common among adolescents," Clayton said.
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He was arrested later that year for possession of synthetic marijuana.
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Cops say they found vaseline in the car and synthetic marijuana.
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Other synthetic marijuana incidents This incident in New York comes about a month after synthetic marijuana was linked to 153 people falling ill and the deaths of four people across Chicago and areas in central Illinois.
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Quinton Jones, said that Jake suddenly became ill after discovering synthetic marijuana.
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The Boston Globe reported Jones had an adverse reaction to synthetic marijuana.
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Pot: The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is cracking down on synthetic marijuana.
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Synthetic marijuana is a bunch of man-made chemicals that interact with CB1.
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The authorities suspect a batch of synthetic marijuana, possibly laced with an opioid.
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The FDA issued a warning today about a synthetic marijuana laced with rat poison.
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Here's everything you need to know about so-called "synthetic marijuana" products:What is K2?
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Authorities suspect all of the victims overdosed on K2, a kind of synthetic marijuana.
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This includes new guidelines for irradiators, a ban on synthetic marijuana and civil penalties.
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Synthetic marijuana has caused similar mass hospitalizations in one localized area in the past.
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According to investigators, they both sold tainted synthetic marijuana at a Chicago convenience store.
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According to the Washington Post, synthetic marijuana can go by the names K2 or Spice.
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Last year, 102 people in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, overdosed on synthetic marijuana within three days.
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The fight was over money — Blount accused Smith of shorting a package of synthetic marijuana.
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Mint and mango pods bought in downtown Los Angeles contained one type of synthetic marijuana.
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Synthetic marijuana products also have the added benefit of not showing up on routine drug tests.
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Watch the episode below: Synthetic marijuana made for a major American public health scare in 2015.
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Or you send people to the hospital after they use synthetic marijuana like K2 and Spice.
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Synthetic marijuana is legal in many states, and it has no chemical resemblance to actual marijuana.
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ABC News cited unidentified police sources as saying Rojas had apparently been high on synthetic marijuana.
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Here's what is happening: Pot: The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is cracking down on synthetic marijuana.
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On Monday morning, The AP reported that some CBD vapes actually contain illegal, cheap, synthetic marijuana.
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Many chemicals used in synthetic marijuana -- which killed three people between 2010 and 2015 -- are still legal.
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Winslow was arrested and charged with drug possession in 2014 after being accused of having synthetic marijuana.
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Synthetic marijuana is a catch-all term for a huge variety of chemicals engineered to mimic weed.
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Chase told his mother that he had taken the synthetic marijuana the day before they traveled there.
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Instead, synthetic marijuana sent him to the hospital with symptoms including delirium and a rapid heart rate.
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Synthetic marijuana is a concern, according to Weintraub, but she said the industry has many reputable companies.
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Synthetic marijuana is a lab-produced, mind-altering drug that's been soaring in popularity in recent years.
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An autopsy is being conducted to determine whether the alleged synthetic marijuana was the cause of Jake's death.
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But everyone grew concerned as Mr. Long began abusing K2, a form of synthetic marijuana, her mother said.
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Winslow Jr. was arrested and charged with drug possession in 2014 after being accused of having synthetic marijuana.
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Muhammad Jaffer Ali is facing nine more years for his role in a scheme to distribute synthetic marijuana.
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AP-commissioned testing of two CBD vape cartridges marketed under Maloney's Hemp Hookahzz brand found no synthetic marijuana.
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Synthetic cannabinoids are also known as synthetic marijuana or fake weed, or by the brand names K2 and Spice.
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Synthetic cannabinoids are also known as synthetic marijuana or fake weed, or by brand names like K2 and Spice.
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He had been hallucinating, and told his mother that he smoked synthetic marijuana before they left for Dominican Republic.
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K2, also known as "spice" or "scooby snax" are "synthetic marijuana" products, meaning they're not made from actual cannabis.
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Winslow was arrested for possession of synthetic marijuana, and the charge was dropped after he completed court-ordered terms.
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Last year in Brooklyn, 33 people from a single neighborhood wound up in the hospital after smoking synthetic marijuana.
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Watch: The Hard Lives of Britain's Synthetic Marijuana Addicts Here's how things look likely to go for everyone involved.
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Synthetic marijuana is in a bit of a legal gray area in New Zealand due to its chemical makeup.
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And last year in North Carolina, federal agents arrested a man accused of selling a synthetic marijuana vaping product.
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Singh pleaded guilty in 2017 to federal charges he sold a smokable "potpourri" that he knew contained synthetic marijuana.
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The men were charged with resisting arrest, attempted assault and possession of about two dozen bags of synthetic marijuana.
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DEA says fentanyl company's synthetic marijuana is less dangerous than real weed DEA says fentanyl company's synthetic marijuana is less dangerous than real weed A troubled pharmaceutical company known for making the powerful painkiller fentanyl just took one step closer to getting into the legal marijuana business — with help from the DEA.
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This mystery makes synthetic marijuana likely to lead to "much more extreme responses," like seizures and psychosis, according to Winstock.
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The patients were believed to have ingested synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as K2 or Spice, Fox 5 NY reported.
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Synthetic marijuana Thirty-three people collapsing on the sidewalk near the same New York street during an 11-hour stretch.
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The powerful drug, also known as Spice or synthetic marijuana, has grown in popularity in recent years despite public warnings.
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He says smoking synthetic marijuana consumed his life and led to an addiction that he's only just managed to break.
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The synthetic marijuana K2 drug is reported to have sickened more than 100 people in Washington, D.C., since the weekend.
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Unlike THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, synthetic marijuana can cause heart attacks, seizures, hallucinations, aggressive behavior, and even death.
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On a typical day, one of the suspects told investigators, the minimart sold close to 80 packages of synthetic marijuana.
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Seventy-six people overdosed on synthetic marijuana, called K2, in a park across from Yale University in New Haven, Conn.
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Four of those seven pods contained illegal synthetic marijuana, but which chemical varied by flavor and even location of purchase.
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He said that experience taught him a lesson and blamed counterfeit products for the synthetic marijuana detected in Green Machine.
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In 2012, the star was rushed to the hospital after smoking synthetic marijuana and inhaling nitrous oxide at a party.
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Rojas reportedly tested positive for synthetic marijuana, otherwise known as spice or K2, after he was brought into police custody.
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And it seems like, when things go bad, they can go really bad: As of last April, there were 1,500 synthetic-marijuana-related hospitalizations reported in the U.S. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have seen multiple serious kidney issues in people who needed emergency care after using synthetic marijuana products.
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Out of nine CBD e-liquids from Diamond Gold, four contained a synthetic marijuana called 5-fluoro MDMB-PINACA (5F-ADB).
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One officer found a substance that appeared to be synthetic marijuana in one of Mr. Green's pockets, according to the documents.
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How did a dangerous chemical like brodifacoum, which does not create a sensation of being high, end up in synthetic marijuana?
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It had yet a different synthetic marijuana compound — one health authorities blame for poisoning people in the U.S. and New Zealand.
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The DEA has officially decided that a notorious fentanyl manufacturer's synthetic marijuana product is safer and more medically valuable than actual weed.
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The overdoses are believed to have happened after people used a drug commonly known as synthetic marijuana that was laced with fentanyl.
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A shooting in July 2016 and an influx of synthetic marijuana raised tensions between the homeless and residents, worsening the block's reputation.
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Nahmani had originally been sentenced to 20 years in prison for distributing synthetic marijuana, according to the Office of the Pardon Attorney.
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And she's seen enough to know the similarity between synthetic "marijuana"—a widely-used misnomer—and natural marijuana is in name only.
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The AP found that the cartridge he used contained a kind of synthetic marijuana tied to at least 11 deaths in Europe.
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Mr. Trump commuted Mr. Suhl's prison sentence and that of Ronen Nahmani, a Florida man convicted in 2015 of selling synthetic marijuana.
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Mr. Trump commuted Mr. Suhl's prison sentence and that of Ronen Nahmani, a Florida man convicted in 2015 of selling synthetic marijuana.
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Turkey has in recent years expanded its anti-narcotics activities following a rise in drug use and deaths caused by synthetic marijuana consumption.
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Wednesday's edition of the Federal Register contains fewer protections for humpback whales, new standards for canned vegetables, and a prohibition on synthetic marijuana.
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There was also a 2016 incident in Brooklyn where 33 people were hospitalized after overdosing on synthetic marijuana over an 11-hour period.
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More than 20 people overdosed in one day in one Connecticut park, from what authorities think was a bad batch of synthetic marijuana.
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In June 2016, 16 people overdosed on synthetic marijuana in a Houston park within four hours, the Houston Press reported at the time.
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At least 33 people were hospitalized after overdosing on a "bad batch" of synthetic marijuana, a drug commonly known as K2 or Spice.
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Magic Puff was still on shelves at a Florida store this summer, and AP testing showed blueberry and strawberry cartridges contained synthetic marijuana.
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On July 13, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration warned consumers that another batch of synthetic marijuana had been laced with rat poison.
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Lab testing AP commissioned this summer found a type of synthetic marijuana that has been blamed for at least 11 deaths in Europe.
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So far this year, poison centers received reports of 3,548 exposures to synthetic marijuana, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
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Just like with the main psychoactive ingredient in traditional marijuana, THC, the psychoactive ingredients in synthetic marijuana bind to the brain's CB1 receptors.
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"Heroin is normally the issue but in the last week there's been an overdose of synthetic marijuana," also known as K20163, May told CNN.
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At least 17 people were hospitalized Tuesday morning in Brooklyn after apparently overdosing on synthetic marijuana, also known as spice or K2, DNAInfo reports.
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The cook, Darnell Wilson, 27, was also arrested in February and was found with synthetic marijuana and tobacco concealed in his shoes, officials said.
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Synthetic marijuana, which can be addictive, has been around for decades, but it's growing in usage thanks to people sharing information on the internet.
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The medical examiner's office ruled his death an accident, citing "excited delirium" brought on by Mr. Ocasio's use of synthetic marijuana, known as K2.
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NEW YORK – More than 25 people have been hospitalized in New York City due to bad reactions to the synthetic marijuana known as K2.
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But the police and city health officials say that the contents, drugs known loosely as synthetic marijuana, or K22, is wholly illegal and dangerous.
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Several of its holdings are drug companies working on synthetic marijuana products, such as Insys Therapeutics, best known for its controversial opioid painkiller Subsys.
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Is there a health crisis Japan with kiken drugs similar to the one we've seen here in the US with synthetic marijuana or opiates?
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Reports suggest that since 2009, drugs like spice, or synthetic marijuana, have killed roughly 1,000 Americans — many of them young people in high school.
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Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman admitted smoking a strain of synthetic marijuana called "spice" before crashing his truck back in October ... this according to police.
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The overdoses are believed to have happened after people used a drug commonly known as synthetic marijuana, or by the brand names K2 and Spice.
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Monday's edition of the Federal Register contains new eligibility requirements for school meal programs, an advisory for gas pipelines and a ban on synthetic marijuana.
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One website advertises synthetic marijuana for as little as $8003 per pound — the same amount of natural CBD costs hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
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NEW TECH &aposREWIRES&apos BRAIN TO HELP STROKE PATIENTS REGAIN USE OF THEIR ARMS 33 people collapse in street after smoking 'K2' drug Dr. Marc Siegel shares a warning about synthetic marijuana on 'Fox & Friends' "Synthetic cannabinoids ('synthetic marijuana,' 'Spice,' 'K2') are various manmade chemicals that some people may use as an alternative to marijuana," the CDC said in a statement on its website.
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Now that it's been mapped, scientists can further investigate how it interacts with synthetic marijuana, which killed 15 people in 2015, and why it's so dangerous.
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Over the course of three days, 22015 people overdosed on "K23," a potent form of synthetic marijuana, in New York City and were hospitalized this week.
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Pure fentanyl and carfentanil are white powder, but the samples she produced included a purplish substance, and green plant material doused with synthetic marijuana and opioids.
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WCBV is reporting the toxicology tests show there was no trace of synthetic marijuana in Hernandez's system when died ... despite previous reports that claimed there was.
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Just over a month ago, on July 4, another batch of synthetic marijuana caused 14 overdoses, most of them at New Haven Green, the police said.
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Some people who are required to undergo routine drug testing use synthetic marijuana to get high because its components are often difficult to detect on tests.
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The company, which is developing a synthetic marijuana painkiller, contributed $500,000 to help defeat a ballot initiative that would have allowed recreational marijuana sales in the state.
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According to the Boston Globe, sources say that Jones was under the influence of synthetic marijuana, a substance known to cause confusion, altered perception, paranoia, and anxiety.
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"I have heard numerous stories from doctors, medics and police officers who encountered a very violent and erratic person under the influence of synthetic marijuana," he said.
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That scene occurred the same day that 76 people were believed to have overdosed on some form of K2, or synthetic marijuana, officials in New Haven said.
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Elliott also admitted later that he had smoked marijuana before being arrested and had used crystal meth and synthetic marijuana in the last year, according to the Gazette.
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When Mary Ann Sherman's son started acting erratically after smoking synthetic marijuana last November, she did what she thought was the right thing: She called police for help.
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Friday's edition of the Federal Register contains new safety requirements for public transportation systems, truck drivers with narcolepsy and a ban on a new form of synthetic marijuana.
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Though testing showed no alcohol or drugs in her system, some of the doctors wondered if she'd taken something — synthetic marijuana or LSD, perhaps — that wouldn't show up.
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"We learned from the 231 Youth Risk Behavior Survey that nearly one in 229 high school students had used synthetic marijuana at some point in their lifetime," Clayton said.
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They found dozens of people who had overdosed on the synthetic marijuana, also known as K2, on Wednesday morning on the New Haven Green, near the Yale University campus.
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This person said that although he was usually friendly and outgoing, he began using synthetic marijuana-like drugs, covered his back in tattoos and showed bouts of aggressive behavior.
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Police officers flooded a gritty patch of Brooklyn, N.Y., a day after 63 people suffered what appeared to be overdoses of synthetic marijuana known as K-2 or Spice.
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At least 28 samples out of more than 22017 tested by government labs in nine states, nearly all in the South, had synthetic marijuana in products marketed as CBD.
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Many parts of the country have seen episodic crises due to synthetic marijuana, the largest occurring in Mississippi, where 721 adverse events were logged between April 2-3, 2015.
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Ten of the 30 contained types of synthetic marijuana — drugs commonly known as K2 or spice that have no known medical benefits — while others had no CBD at all.
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A driver who crashed his car into pedestrians on the sidewalk in New York City's Times Square on Thursday morning tested positive for synthetic marijuana, multiple outlets are reporting.
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The 13-count indictment from April 28 charges the group with possessing and distributing synthetic marijuana as well as other crimes such as money laundering, U.S. prosecutors in Texas said.
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The DEA had intended to ban kratom via its emergency authority, granted by Congress to swiftly tackle emerging "designer drugs" such as synthetic marijuana and so-called bath salts. Sen.
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He cited Chandler Jones, a Pro Bowl defensive end who had created off-the-field drama last week when reports suggested he had had a bad reaction to synthetic marijuana.
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Although synthetic marijuana products can bind to these receptors, they do so in a different way — they may bind to different cannabinoid receptors than those favored by THC, for example.
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But while the mayor may believe New York is winning the war on K2, Bed-Stuy—where Tuesday's overdoses took place—has reportedly reached epidemic levels of synthetic marijuana use.
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Crooks are cashing in on the CBD craze by substituting cheap and illegal synthetic marijuana for natural CBD in vapes and edibles such as gummy bears, an AP investigation found.
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Many experts say "synthetic marijuana" is a huge misnomer for these drugs, since they produce far different effects and can be up to 100 times more potent than traditional marijuana.
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The children&aposs mother said he had been smoking synthetic marijuana and that she repeatedly tried to warn social workers that he posed a danger to them before they were killed.
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Still, people looking for a legal high in the wake of our country's restrictive drug policies may turn to synthetic marijuana when they can't get their hands on the real stuff.
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The result is a document that reads like a DEA agent got hopped up on booty juice (MDMA), brain ticklers (amphetamines), and krazy kandy (synthetic marijuana), then picked up a thesaurus.
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Synthetic marijuana, also known as fake weed, K2 or spice, is a mixture of herbs, spices or shredded plant material laced with chemicals similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
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It's a gamble what chemical compound you actually get when you buy synthetic marijuana, and it can cause side effects like agitation, confusion, dizziness, lack of coordination, sedation, and even seizures.
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Shryock later admitted to using drugs the week her daughter was hospitalized, including synthetic marijuana and marijuana, methamphetamine, and Tylenol mixed with codeine, which was prescribed, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. authorities arrested 16 people in connection with what they said was a major ring in the Houston-area distributing synthetic marijuana, according to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday.
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He was believed to be under the influence of some intoxicating substance, a police source has told Reuters, while law enforcement officials told ABC News he was apparently high on synthetic marijuana.
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Over the last week, emergency services responded to 25 synthetic marijuana overdoses a day -- about one an hour -- in public bathrooms, parking lots, residential homes, on the street and in the parks.
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The discovery will help us understand how to better use marijuana for medical purposes — and solve the mystery of why synthetic marijuana is so dangerous, but nobody dies from the natural stuff.
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He was believed to be under the influence of some intoxicating substance, a police source previously told Reuters, while law enforcement officials told ABC News he was apparently high on synthetic marijuana.
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Meanwhile, a product called Diamond CBD Vape Additive was found to contain dextromethorphan, while Liquid Gold Jungle Juice, Liquid Gold Strawberry, and also the Diamond CBD Vape Additive contained the synthetic marijuana.
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Some CBD vapes may be spiked with cheap, illegal synthetic marijuana, leading to dozens of hospitalizations over the last two years, according to an investigation published by The Associated Press on Monday.
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She also has filed a second lawsuit seeking damages from Lexington County retailers, alleging they sold him the synthetic marijuana product that he was under the influence of when he killed the children.
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Perhaps you think this warning is obvious — that of course you'd never buy a sexual enhancement supplement called Krazzy Rhino, sold on a shelf next to 24-hour-energy shots and synthetic marijuana.
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On Wednesday afternoon, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams planned to distribute fliers and speak with residents in his Bedford-Stuyvesant district about the recent mass overdose and the dangers of synthetic marijuana.
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Apparently reacting to synthetic marijuana he took days earlier, he bit his girlfriend and tried to jump out of the back seat of the car as the family drove through Georgia toward Florida.
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Synthetic marijuana, also known as K2 or Spice, is a chemical that is different from naturally occurring cannabis, but binds to similar receptors in the brain, and can sometimes have similar psychoactive effects.
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The team had previously experimented with journeyman Sean O'Sullivan, which is kind of like experimenting with those synthetic marijuana packets, and O'Sullivan gave up 10 runs in 10 innings to Oakland and Houston.
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But state and national public health officials say this is the first time they have seen synthetic marijuana result in severe bleeding in users, a condition that if left untreated can be deadly.
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Zarrab testified on Tuesday that in return for his guilty plea prosecutors said he would not be charged with lying to law enforcement officers after his arrest and smoking synthetic marijuana in jail.
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Some operators are cashing in on the CBD craze by substituting cheap and illegal synthetic marijuana for natural CBD in vapes and edibles such as gummy bears, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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Hinton's text said the Gas Pipe receipt was sent to him by an attorney who is involved in a federal case accusing two people affiliated with the chain of making and selling synthetic marijuana.
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Authorities say Kevin McKoy, a 31-year-old guard, was at the center of the conspiracy, receiving at least $10,000 in bribes to smuggle scalpels, synthetic marijuana and the opioid drug suboxone into Rikers.
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Deadly synthetic marijuana known as K2 has been tied to two deaths and at least 56 illnesses in Chicago in recent weeks, leaving some users reportedly bleeding out of their eyes, ears, and mouths.
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Synthetic marijuana, otherwise known as K22 or Spice, is dried plant matter sprayed or coated with man-made hallucinatory substances that are created in an attempt to mimic THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana.
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When synthetic marijuana, often called K2, was causing overdoses last summer, State Police investigators wanted to look into the drug's distributors to choke off the supply, two people with knowledge of the plan said.
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However, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine has advised against the use of medical cannabis or synthetic marijuana extracts for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that plagues some 30 million Americans.
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Health officials say the patients are believed to have inhaled synthetic marijuana, otherwise known as Spice or K2, laced with a pesticide called brodifacoum that is used as rat poison and causes severe bleeding.
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The local police chief said that a sample sent to the Drug Enforcement Administration for testing had shown the drug was just synthetic marijuana, but they had sent more samples and were awaiting additional tests.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, use of synthetic marijuana is particularly popular among teens and young adults seeking a cheap alternative to marijuana or a new experience with a hallucinogenic drug.
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Rojas, who has been arrested for driving under the influence twice before, had been high on K2, a synthetic marijuana which hospitalized a shocking number of people last year, at the time of the incident.
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A fourth man, Tyquan Holley, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, after a police officer spotted him holding what was believed to be synthetic marijuana outside 23 Myrtle Avenue, the police said.
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New York is one of more than 40 states that have banned the drugs, which are commonly called synthetic marijuana and marketed under designer names like Spice, Green Giant Scooby Snax and Mr. Bad Guy.
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Experts such as Michelle Peace, a forensic scientist at Virginia Commonwealth University who has found synthetic marijuana in her own testing of CBD vapes, said the federal government should act quickly to protect the public.
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More than 70 people overdosed in the city during a 24-hour span, beginning Tuesday evening, and the authorities said they suspect a virulent batch of synthetic marijuana, possibly laced with an opioid, was the cause.
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When we met in person he wouldn't get into specifics about what happened that afternoon, but in a previous phone call from jail he said he "got ahold of some Spice," another name for synthetic marijuana.
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Marielle Weintraub, president of the U.S. Hemp Authority, an industry group that certifies CBD cosmetics and dietary supplements, told the AP that synthetic marijuana is a concern but that the industry does also have reputable companies.
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According to the source, Rojas was allegedly under the influence of synthetic marijuana at the time of the crash, and he later "alluded to suicide by cop" and "the end of days" and said he'd experienced hallucinations.
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In another blemish on New York City's troubled jail system, two Rikers Island correction officers and a cook accepted bribes from inmates to smuggle in contraband such as scalpels, synthetic marijuana and tobacco, officials said on Thursday.
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Indeed, in a spate of cases officials think is separate from the Illinois-focused outbreak, dozens of people were hospitalized or visited emergency rooms in New York City in recent days due to suspected synthetic marijuana use.
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Synthetic marijuana, dried plant matter sprayed with chemicals and then smoked, is illegally sold in shiny foil packages with names like Insane, Crazy Monkey and Blue Giant from the counters of gas stations, minimarts and head shops.
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According to the Herald, a potent mix of problems — staffing cuts, growing violence, the introduction of synthetic marijuana and inexperienced guards — has left Florida prisons struggling to adequately inspect cells for weapons and contraband, let alone control inmates.
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Related: Watch 'The Hard Lives of Britain's Synthetic Marijuana Addicts' our documentary about the users who have become addicted to spice Also published today is the most in-depth analysis of a modern prison drug market ever undertaken.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning the public that synthetic marijuana could be contaminated with rat poison, after state health departments have reported more than 200 cases of poisoning with unexplained bleeding, including five deaths.
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Mr. White, who some residents said was known to use K2, a form of synthetic marijuana, would often tell those who bothered him that he would "give them a 150," Mr. McCaffrey said, meaning 150 stitches across the face.
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"It's a concoction of lots and lots of different chemicals," said Dr. Adam Black, a physician at Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center in Chicago, which has treated several synthetic marijuana users with severe bleeding in recent days.
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If that wasn't enough, suicide rates have reached an all-time high—with 113 self-inflicted deaths in the year up to March 2017—and the formerly legal synthetic marijuana is wreaking havoc in prisons up and down the country.
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On Thursday, New Haven Police Chief Anthony Campbell said that a sample sent to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for testing had shown the drug was just synthetic marijuana, but that they had sent more samples Thursday and were awaiting additional tests.
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By Wednesday morning, the police said they were notified of several other overdoses from synthetic marijuana, also known as K2, or Spice, not only in the park but in three other locations around the city, including in the Fair Haven and Westville neighborhoods.
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During her inpatient psych evaluation, the attending psychiatrist detailed the new meds: olanzapine for psychosis; escitalopram for depression; as well as a dash of synthetic marijuana, ostensibly to increase appetite, but to which I attributed my mother's new mellow and cooperative attitude.
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Singh, who is currently on probation for a federal synthetic marijuana conviction, said he purchased Green Machine pods with cash or in exchange for merchandise such as hookah pipes from a man he knew as "Bob" who drove a van down from Massachusetts.
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First off, although headlines may make it seem like these products are everywhere, relatively few people are actually using them in the U.S. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, a 2013 global study found that 93% of those who tried synthetic marijuana vastly preferred the real thing.
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Besides seeking justice for her son, Dobner says her other goal is to warn people about the dangers of synthetic marijuana, which can be 800 times stronger than real marijuana and especially dangerous because consumers don't know what ingredients are used, CBS2 Chicago reports.
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The wire did laboratory testing on about 30 vaping products that are billed as CBD, the non psychoactive compound found in marijuana and hemp, and found that ten out of the 30 products contained types of synthetic marijuana, while others contained no CBD whatsoever.
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The overdoses are believed to have happened after people used a drug commonly known as synthetic marijuana that was laced with fentanyl, according to Dr. Kathryn Hawk, an Emergency Department physician with the Yale New Haven Hospital who spoke to the New Haven Register on Wednesday.
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Although things have cooled off a bit since last summer, synthetic marijuana, often known as "K2" or "Spice," was back in the news last week when New England Patriots player Chandler Jones allegedly smoked some, only to reportedly show up at a Massachusetts police station shirtless before getting hospitalized.
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When Karen Dobner's 2000-year-old son died in 2800 from smoking a form of synthetic marijuana, she vowed to do everything in her power to stop everyone who contributed to his death — from the drug ring to the store owner who sold the deadly drugs to him.
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His former teammate Robert Nkemdiche, considered to be one of the best overall talents in the draft, nearly fell out of the first round entirely, due mostly to an incident in which he fell out a window, some synthetic marijuana, and his generally being sort of a weird guy.
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The investigation began with the arrest in November of Kevin McKoy, now 31, a correction officer who was assigned to the Anna M. Kross Center at Rikers, on charges that he tried to smuggle in concealed scalpels, a form of synthetic marijuana known as K2 and strips of Suboxone, an opioid.
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Top political figures had advocated for the release of the two men who will now be released from prison on Trump's orders: Ted Suhl, an Arkansas man who was convicted of bribery and fraud charges, and Ronen Nahmani, a Floridian who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for distributing synthetic marijuana.
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His lawyers argued at trial that he was teetering on the brink of madness partially due to a dependence on drugs — he told a forensic psychiatrist he smoked synthetic marijuana up to five times per day, reported The Post and Courier — and partially because Kyzer allegedly had left him for a 19-year-old neighbor.
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Chandler Jones — After a week of taking lumps for a hospital visit necessitated by a bad reaction to synthetic marijuana, Jones made perhaps the biggest defensive play of the game for New England, stripping Knile Davis on the opening drive of the second half, as Kansas City was trying to keep pace after trailing 503-6 at half.
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But, as the New York Daily News and ProPublica reported earlier this year, the 1977 "nuisance abatement" law that was passed to empower the Office of Midtown Enforcement's prosecution of sex-related businesses in Times Square has metastasized over the last three decades, amended to include everything from the employment of unlicensed security guards to selling synthetic marijuana and fake IDs.
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