Synthetic marijuana has a short but ugly history in sports

 

Synthetic marijuana is an ugly drug. It doesn’t mellow a person out or make them want to listen to jam bands in tie-dye T-shirts. Quite the opposite, actually: Synthetic marijuana can make its users act erratically; it can increase their anxiety, cause hallucinations and, in the case of New England Patriots player Chandler Jones, it allegedly can lead you to run shirtless into a Massachusetts police station like a crazy person and get you checked into the hospital.

Jones’s alleged experience with the drug ended peacefully; however, it doesn’t always work out that way. Synthetic marijuana, which gives its users a high off of simulated cannabinoids meant to mimic the effects of THC, the naturally occurring compound in the cannabis plant, doesn’t have a long history. Yet in the few years it’s been in existence since it was invented by an ex-Clemson professor, it’s made an indelible mark in...

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