Synthetic cannabinoids are a manmade alternative to cannabis, otherwise known as designer drugs, or “fake weed.” While they are marketed as a safe alternative to the real thing, they are anything but ...

The first thing that comes to mind for most people when thinking about the term cannabinoid is the best-known representative of the substance group—tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. THC is the principal ...

New research shows that prenatal exposure to a synthetic cannabinoid induces long-term adverse health effects in rats. The corresponding study was published in the American Journal of Physiology- Lung ...

Adverse health effects as a result of increased synthetic marijuana use are on the rise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday. According to the CDC's Morbidity and ...

The side-effects of synthetic cannabinoids have likely motivated the crackdown on hemp products, a supplier of the plant said. Khomeini Taalib-Din, the owner of Best Buds, said that many adverse ...

Herbal Marijuana Alternatives (HMAs) such as K2 or Spice are sold as alternatives to marijuana that provide similar clinical effects but are not detectable by the traditional marijuana screening ...

A warning about life-threatening bleeding linked to use of synthetic cannabinoids -- commonly known as fake weed or spice -- was issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday ...

Synthetic cannabinoid abuse is a growing problem in the United States, with new versions of the drugs coming on the market every year. New research is examining how the body processes these man-made ...

Synthetic drugs are raising the risk of an epidemic worse than that of fentanyl in the UK and Europe. Marianne Guenot explains what these drugs are and what clinicians need to know Mat Southwell had ...

On Wednesday and Thursday (August 15 and August 16), more than 85 people in New Haven, Connecticut, overdosed on synthetic cannabinoids. In Washington, DC, last month, more than 300 people overdosed ...

This article was originally published on Askgrowers and appears here with permission. Marijuana lovers already know that cannabis contains THC and CBD. The percentage of these cannabinoids decides the ...

Cathinones derived from the khat plant (Catha edulis) have been used recreationally for centuries. Chewing the leaves and twigs of the plant produces amphetamine-like euphoric effects. In 2006, there ...