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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Cuomo's Health Department to expand regulation that banned synthetic pot after related hospitalizations 🌿Cuomo's Health Department to expand regulation that banned synthetic pot after related hospitalizations
The drugs are marketed as incense, herbal mixtures or potpourri to mask their actual purpose, the state says. They carry such street names as Spice, K2, Green Giant and Smacked.
ALBANY — The state is smoking out new variants of synthetic pot after a rash of hospitalizations statewide related to the dangerous product.
Gov. Cuomo’s Health Department is set to expand a 2012 regulation that banned a whole range of synthetic cannabis-like products and bath salts.
Manufacturers have found ways around the ban by using different chemical combinations not referenced in the 2012 regulation that created even stronger compounds, Cuomo says.
The drugs are marketed as incense, herbal mixtures or potpourri to mask their actual purpose, the state says. They carry such street names as Spice, K2, Green Giant and Smacked.
After nearly 2,000 people were hospitalized between April and the end of June from using the products, the Health...
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