Sentences with phrase «with synthetic marijuana»
The researchers found that race and sex were significantly correlated with synthetic marijuana use.
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Reports of synthetic marijuana laced with rat poison have sparked a health scare in the New York area.
Senator Klein's office, in coordination with community leaders and local hospitals, has identified 24 stores in The Bronx allegedly selling synthetic marijuana.
Senator Klein's proposed legislation would better equip law enforcement and district attorneys in New York with the tools they need to prosecute and enforce the illegal sale of synthetic marijuana.
Recent reports across the nation have detailed multiple arrests of professional football players for using drugs like synthetic marijuana, K2 or Spice, with other instances ending in trips to the hospital for the highly trained athletes.
BRONX, NY — State Senator and Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), together with Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj (D - Bronx), Director of Behavioral Health Services at North Bronx Healthcare Network Dr. Maryann Popiel, Director of the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program at Jacobi Hospital Dr. Benjamin Raatjes, community leaders and health officials, today demanded a crackdown on the sale of synthetic marijuana at Jacobi Hospital's Trauma Center in The Bronx.
Synthetic marijuana is known to cause Excited Delirium Syndrome or a state of «extreme mental and physiological excitement,» associated with violent behavior, seizures, high blood pressure, elevated body temperatures and more.
According to law enforcement sources, officials are inspecting three Staten Island delis, two in Stapleton and one in Port Richmond, in connection with the bust to determine if they are selling synthetic marijuana.
With bad weather grounding his plane, Gov. Cuomo announced in New York City a Rochester arrest related to the sale and distribution of the synthetic marijuana substance known as K2.
The Syracuse Rescue Mission dealt with another surge of drug overdoses from synthetic marijuana in late May.
With police seeing a resurgence in synthetic marijuana overdoses, Governor Cuomo has proposed stronger regulations to combat the sale of synthetic pot.
The New York Department of Health announced Thursday emergency regulations broadening the ban on synthetic marijuana to try to keep up with drug makers.
With police seeing a resurgence in synthetic marijuana overdoses, Governor Cuomo has proposed stronger
New York has broadened a ban on synthetic marijuana to keep up with drug makers who create new chemical recipes to evade the existing law.
New York is moving to expand a ban on synthetic marijuana to keep with drug makers who create new chemical recipes to evade the existing law.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Reports of synthetic marijuana laced with rat poison have sparked a health scare in the New York area.
The announcement also coincided with a State Police announcement about a Medford drug bust in which three men were arrested and charged with selling K2, a synthetic form of marijuana.
Synthetic marijuana is marketed as legal and sold in colorful packets with street names such as K2, Spice and AK - 47.
With a new piece of legislation, Westchester lawmakers will look to piggyback on a recently passed New York City law blockading the spread of a synthetic marijuana known commonly as «spice.»
Two Cortland men were charged with endangering the welfare of a child over the weekend for smoking synthetic marijuana in front of children.
Part of the problem with policing synthetic marijuana is that the manufacturers routinely make changes to the chemical composition of the drug to avoid controlled substance laws.
Synthetic marijuana, sometimes called «Spice,» is made with shredded plant material coated with chemicals that are designed to mimic THC, the psychoactive compound found naturally in marijuana.
Dr. Palamar posits that it is likely that many of these synthetic marijuana users resort to trying this «legal,» but more dangerous version of marijuana in order to avoid possible arrest, detection on drug screenings, or the stigma associated with being an illicit drug user.
Often perceived as a safe legal alternative to illicit drug use, synthetic marijuana use was associated with 11,561 reports of poisonings in the United States between January 2009 and April 2012.
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A new study by researchers affiliated with New York University's Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR), is now online ahead of print in Drug and Alcohol Dependence and it is one of the first national studies to examine risk factors for use of synthetic marijuana among a large, nationally representative sample of teens.
Most importantly, frequency of lifetime marijuana use was the strongest correlate, with more frequent use further increasing odds of synthetic marijuana use.
A study from January found that certain synthetic formulations of marijuana significantly interfered with LTP in the mouse hippocampus, because they inhibit the release of neurotransmitters.