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The Big Business of Synthetic Highs Synthetic drugs that use legal compounds but mimic the highs of everything from marijuana to cocaine are proliferating among do-it-yourself pharma labs across the country. Bad trips - and fatal side effects - are increasing, too.   |
Chemistry World
May 13, 2011
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Synthetic cannabis drug test US researchers have developed a new urine test for detecting and quantifying some of the metabolites associated with synthetic cannabis. |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2015 |
Synthetic cannabinoid poisonings surge in US US poison control centres have experienced a 229% increase in the number of calls related to synthetic cannabinoid use in 2015 compared with last year. |
Fast Company
February 2004
Bill Breen |
The Cannabis Conundrum As the founder of a British pharmaceutical company puts it, if it weren't called marijuana there would be an entire biotech business built around this plant. And that's just what's starting to happen (but not for the U.S. drug industry or the American patients these medicines might help). |
Chemistry World
June 4, 2013
Maria Burke |
'Legal high' production gathers pace New designer drugs are popping up in Europe at an unprecedented rate, sometimes on the illicit drug market and sometimes as 'legal' alternatives to controlled drugs, according to the latest report by the EU drugs agency. |
Salon.com
July 26, 2000
Cynthia Kuhn & Wilkie Wilson |
No fooling My girlfriend smoked a lot of pot recently and now has to take a drug test for her new job. Is there anything she can do to avoid being caught? |
Chemistry World
January 15, 2009
Ned Stafford |
Synthetic cannabis mimic found in herbal incense A chemical substance first synthesized in 1995 in a university lab in the US is now being used by young people around the world to legally achieve a marijuana-like high and is causing alarm among health officials in Europe. |
Chemistry World
August 25, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Chemists wage war on designer drugs It is relatively simple to take a drug that has a known psychoactive effect and change one substituent group to make it into another drug that is not yet classified as illegal but provides the same or similar psychoactive high |
Chemistry World
June 8, 2015
Maria Burke |
Warnings that proposed UK blanket ban on 'legal highs' casts net too wide Some legal experts and scientists are warning that a proposed blanket ban on so-called 'legal highs' won't tackle the problem and may well hold back research into areas such as neuroscience. |
Fast Company
February 2004
Bill Breen |
Dr. Dope's Connection David Watson, the CEO of the Dutch pharmaceutical R&D company Hortapharm, has assembled what is arguably the world's most comprehensive cannabis-seed library. |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2015 |
High hopes The multi-target, rebalancing properties of cannabinoids also explains why they show promise as drugs in such a wide variety of conditions. |
Chemistry World
February 17, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Clinical trials high on list for medical marijuana community The drug's controlled status is continuing to slow efforts to investigate the myriad compounds in the plant. |
Salon.com
January 31, 2001
Chris Colin |
Doctor's orders: Get high A trip into the medical marijuana demimonde smokes out America's confusion about drugs, pleasure and morality... |
AskMen.com
August 2, 2004
Steve Seepersaud |
Sports Gossip: Quitters, Parasites & Criminals Ricky William's waste of talent... Jayson William's latest legal problems... Giambi 's medical report... Wrestler returns to gridiron... etc. |
