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Newshawk: Herb
Webpage: http://mapinc.org/url/ttWIb4Ly
Pubdate: Sun, 01 Aug 2010
Source: Olympian, The (WA)
Copyright: 2010 The Olympian
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/51PidAHv
Website: http://www.theolympian.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/319
Author: Jeremy Pawloski
POT SUBSTITUTES LACK CONTROLS
Legal: Health Effects Of Products Untested
Herbal blends such as the one that put a Tumwater teen in the
emergency room after he smoked it last week include synthetic
marijuana compounds that are legal but have never been approved for
human consumption, according to a pharmacologist who uses them in research.
"There've been no controlled clinical trials to tell us how dangerous
they are in humans," Steve Childers, a pharmacology professor at Wake
Forest University Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina, said of
the compounds, which mostly are legal. "We don't know enough about
the human pharmacological effects of these substances. Anybody with
any brains wouldn't use them."
[Remainder snipped]
MAP posted-by: Keith Brilhart
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