Students who had tried spice were more likely to have tried alcohol,heroin, and ecstasy, the scientists found. While the users of syntheticcannabinoids (SC) also reported more in more physical fights. The author of the study, Heather Clayton, of the University of Texas, told LiveScience: ' results show a dramatic difference in association with health risk behaviors by type of use of marijuana. ' We found that students who used synthetic marijuana had a probability significantly greaterthan participate in the majority of health risk behaviors included in the study compared with students who used marijuana only.' spice wasa so-called legal high until it was banned along with other substances in the repression of the UK Government in May last year. While theprevention of abuse of synthetic drugs from 2012, implemented by the former President Barack Obama Act prohibits various SCs in the United States, despite being commonplace in prisons, experts warn now that it is on the rise among common users, particularly the students because of their attractive labeling. It is a synthetic cannabinoid - which means a manufactured chemical substance to act as the main ingredient of psychoactive cannabis, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Sprayed the inert ingredients of the plant to produce a powerful mix of smoke which can lead to seizures.
These chemicals can be as much as 40 to 600 times more powerful than THC. Reported effects include convulsions, difficulty breathing, kidney and heart, as well as hallucinations and irreparable damage to the mental health of the user.
The new study, published in Pediatrics, evaluated 964 students who completed surveys on the use of marijuana, synthetic cannabis, alcohol and other drugs. Symptoms of anxiety and depression and impulsive behavior were also measured before the survey was repeated a year later. In terms of mental health, the researchers also found the depressive symptoms were more likely to try SC. However, the finding of the same did not apply to marijuana. It comes after British experts warned last week that the synthetic cannabis can make psychotic users in a single night. While herbal cannabis may take years to cause psychosis, the synthetic version can trigger an episode within hours.
An article in the medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry said there is an urgent need to explore how the drug can become safer.
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Marijuana increases the risk of developing schizophrenia and causesheart attacks, according to the most significant study on the effects of the drug to date. A federal advisory panel admitted cannabis almost certainly can relieve chronic pain and may help some people to sleep. But it rejects most of the drug of other supposedly 'health benefits' as unproven. Crucially, the researchers concluded that enough research there is to say whether marijuana is effectively epilepsy - one ofthe reasons most widely recognized for cannabis recipes.
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