Learn about our Editorial Policies. 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 ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Huffman’s intent, like other scientists who had generated synthetic cannabinoids over the years, was not to create recreational drugs. It was to ...

When the synthetic substance salvia was made illegal in August, local law enforcement officials said they expected imitation marijuana – such as “K2” and “Spice” – would take its place as the new ...

Staff Writer  When salvia was made illegal in August, local law enforcement officials said they expected synthetic marijuana – such as “K2” and “Spice” – would take ...

Correspondent  When salvia was made illegal in August, local law enforcement officials said they expected synthetic marijuana – such as K2 and Spice – would take ...

Spice is a nickname given to synthetic cannabinoids — lab-made drugs that were originally designed to mimic the effects of cannabis. “We are aware of a post circulating on social media around ...

They include spice, which is usually a brand name for synthetic cannabinoids that mimic the effects of cannabis. "Synthetic cannabinoids have been chemically designed in a laboratory to be more ...

Pharmaceuticals mostly started as plants — and then they were synthesized For pharmaceutical companies, synthetic cannabinoids follow a familiar path. "The majority of pharmaceuticals originated ...

Study author Luis Gustavo A. Patrone and his colleagues hypothesized that maternal exposure to a synthetic cannabinoid called WIN (WIN 55,212-2) during pregnancy would affect the cardiorespiratory ...