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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Vertex: Police warn of 'ticking time bomb' of potentially lethal cannabis substitute 🌿Vertex: Police warn of 'ticking time bomb' of potentially lethal cannabis substitute
Police in the north-west of England have warned of a “ticking time-bomb” after four people were hospitalised after taking a potentially lethal legal high.
Cheshire Police have warned that there a “significant risk to life” from the cannabis substitute Vertex, which has been linked to a spate of incidents in Warrington and Runcorn this week, including the hospitalisation of a 16-year-old girl.
The legal high, which is also known as Space Cadet, is a synthetic alternative to marijuana, often imported legally from China, that is diluted with water, sprayed onto herbs and smoked like marijuana.
Laboratory tests have now confirmed that some samples of Vertex, which is freely available in shops locally and online, contain a potentially lethal synthetic cannabis chemical called AB–CHMINACA (AB-C). AB-C is already illegal in the
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