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5 things we learned from live Q&A on synthetic marijuana

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 08/12/2015 - 09:15

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Readers posed a variety of questions about synthetic marijuana Tuesday during a live Q&A with the head of the Upstate New York Poison Center.

Michele Caliva, the Syracuse center's administrative director, spent an hour with Syracuse.com fielding queries submitted by readers about Onondaga County's problem with synthetic marijuana. The center has received a 540-percent increase in calls about the drug better known as "spike" from Onondaga County over the past five years.

Here are five of the most interesting things we learned about synthetic marijuana from Caliva:

1. The drug that eventually became synthetic marijuana was originally created by scientists to treat anorexia and excessive pain.

"It was for legitimate use," Caliva said. "Unfortunately an entire industry around abuse has developed. We still call it by that name because that is what the people using it refer to it is as."

2. You can't necessarily...

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