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Over the past couple of months, newspapers and TV stations across the United States have been running with horror stories about K2, spice, and others kinds of “synthetic marijuana.” A recent article ...

Here's a story that’s becoming familiar to parents, young people, and plenty of doctors. A perfectly normal teen makes a choice that seems totally natural to many around her: She turns to a synthetic ...

It goes by many names — K2, Spice, Bizarro, Scooby Snax, Kryp2nite and Stoopid, to name but a few — and it’s setting off alarm bells across the United States. Synthetic marijuana is being cited by ...

This week, President Obama signed a law banning synthetic marijuana and other synthetic drugs. Dozens of states and local governments have already tried to outlaw fake marijuana, which has been blamed ...

Just two years after the Iowa Legislature based a bill making synthetic marijuana illegal, officials in the governor's office of drug control policy are looking for a quicker way to keep new, ...

Synthetic drug use is a growing problem, and it's making poison control centers and emergency rooms nationwide even busier. As a result, more and more states are joining the anti-synthetic drug ...

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