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<\/div>A troubling trend: vapes and other products advertised as containing CBD are actually spiked with synthetic marijuana, a dangerous drug that’s been linked with deaths<\/a>, serious hospitalizations<\/a>, and psychosis<\/a>.<\/p> Poring over a collection of police records and the findings of its own investigation into CBD products, The Associated Press <\/a><\/em>found<\/a> that many products labeled as CBD products only contain trace amounts of the chemical<\/a>, which advocates claim treats a range of medical maladies.<\/p> But many contained dangerous synthetic marijuana — and tracking down the perpetrators meant leaping down a rabbit hole of weak government regulations and shady business practices.<\/p> In a separate report<\/a>, the AP<\/em> found that 128 of the 350 CBD products tested by American law enforcement agencies contained synthetic marijuana, as did ten of the 30 tested by the AP<\/em>.<\/p> “It’s Russian roulette,” James Neal-Kababick told the AP<\/em>. He’s the director of Flora Research Laboratories, which the AP <\/em>commissioned to run the tests CBD products. Synthetic marijuana poses an ongoing problem<\/a> that’s unrelated to recent cases of a mysterious “vape lung” illness<\/a>.<\/p> The AP <\/em>also profiled cases like one in which a college student fell into a coma after two hits of a spiked CBD vape. In Utah, that same brand hospitalized 33 people. In another case, an eight-year-old boy was hospitalized when his parents tried to treat his seizures with spiked CBD oil. In Europe, the synthetic marijuana that popped up in the AP<\/em>‘s investigation has killed 11. In those and other cases investigated by the AP<\/em>, the products’ packaging made no mention of synthetic marijuana.<\/p> The FDA is in charge of regulating CBD because it’s approved at least one pharmaceutical that uses the drug as an active ingredient. A spokesperson told the AP<\/em> that if synthetic marijuana is found in a product, it becomes the DEA’s problem. But a DEA spokesperson told the AP <\/em>that synthetic marijuana is a low priority for the agency.<\/p> “As long as it remains unregulated like it currently is,” Virginia Commonwealth University researcher Michelle Peace told the AP<\/em>, “you just give a really wide space for nefarious activity to continue.”<\/p> The post Some CBD Tainted With Substance That Causes Death, Comas, Insanity<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> See original here: A troubling trend: vapes and other products advertised as containing CBD are actually spiked with synthetic marijuana, a dangerous drug that\u2019s been linked with deaths , serious hospitalizations , and psychosis . Continue reading
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