Synthetic Marijuana: What Is It, And Is It Riskier Than Regular Pot?
Synthetic marijuana DEASynthetic marijuana has been shown to get people good and high. But this is not your parents' weed. Synthetic marijuana carries the sort of junior-circuit connotation befitting a drug high-schoolers favor - pot's answer to the wine cooler. Then you read stories like that of Emily Bauer, a Houston-area teenager who suffered series of strokes that left her blind and paralyzed after she smoked some fake weed she bought at a gas station. Over a matter of weeks in December she went from having migraines to falling into a daylong psychotic episode, and in January emerged from a medically induced coma with profound brain damage. Her stepfather told CNN: "I'd never have thought we'd be in this situation. If she had bought it off the street or from a corner, that's one thing, but she bought it from convenience store." Her ordeal and others like it sound like...