Synthetic marijuana leads to death of IL resident

Be advised! Synthetic cannabinoid products linked to severe bleedingPN EditorThursday

Be advised! Synthetic cannabinoid products linked to severe bleedingPN EditorThursday

The agency is continuing to warn anyone who has used these products and starts to experience sudden, unexplained bleeding or bruising is urged to seek emergency help immediately.

There's a fake form of marijuana going around IL - and it's making people bleed from their eyes and ears. IDPH spokeswoman Melaney Arnold told the Chicago newspaper that the product is banned for sale across the state, but some manufacturers alter the "molecular makeup of the products" to "get around" the law. The health effects from using synthetic cannabinoids can be unpredictable, harmful, and deadly.

"Synthetic cannabinoids are unsafe", IDPH Director Nirav D. Shah said.

Synthetic cannabis has claimed a life in IL.

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Arnold said symptoms of the outbreak have included severe bloody noses, coughing up blood, bleeding gums and blood in urine.

In the first five months of 2015, American Association of Poison Centers and the CDC's Health Studies Branch identified 3,572 calls related to synthetic cannabinoid exposures, a 229 percent increase from the same period in 2014. Researches from universities in the Netherlands and Germany found that users of synthetic marijuana were more likely to feel incapacitated, compared with regular weed, even if the high was relatively similar. Some of these substances may have been around for years but have reentered the market in altered chemical forms, or due to renewed popularity.

Leikin said to the TV station that officials did not yet know what it was, exactly, in the synthetic weed that was causing the problem, but it seemed like it might be an anticoagulant or blood thinner. Observing JWH-018, a type of synthetic marijuana, the researchers did not find troubling side effects such as, say, bleeding from the eyes. The product can be smoked or sold as a liquid - and is often found at convenience stores, gas stations, novelty shops and online. A study has associated synthetic cannabinoid use with psychotic episodes and death.

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