This week, President Obama signed a law banning synthetic marijuana and other synthetic drugs. Dozens of states and local governments have already tried to outlaw fake marijuana, which has been blamed ...

The Drug Enforcement Administration has issued a warning to neighborhood stores in the San Diego region to stop selling fake marijuana products that were temporarily banned last week because of their ...

These are examples of fake "bath salts," displayed by Senate Drug Policy Committee chairman Sid Albritton, R-Picayune, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. The salts contain toxic ...

They go by names like Voodoo, Euphoria, Dead Man and Black Magic, offer a cheap high and are easily found at local tobacco and head shops. Advertisement Article continues below this ad The herbs and ...

Here's a story that’s becoming familiar to parents, young people, and plenty of doctors. A perfectly normal teen makes a choice that seems totally natural to many around her: She turns to a synthetic ...

It goes by many names — K2, Spice, Bizarro, Scooby Snax, Kryp2nite and Stoopid, to name but a few — and it’s setting off alarm bells across the United States. Synthetic marijuana is being cited by ...

Synthetic marijuana, which is sold openly in shops and gives smokers a high, was banned Thursday across New York after being linked to serious health risks. It will be no more "Mr Nice Guy," or ...

The sudden upswing in the number of people seeking medical help because of smoking synthetic marijuana attests to the unpredictability of this designer drug. The average number of visits to an ...

Fake marijuana likely contaminated with rat poison has killed three people in Illinois and caused severe bleeding in more than 100 others, including a few in four other states. The federal Centers for ...

Discovered: Fake weed gave lots of people kidney damage last year; the FDA approves artificial sight for the blind; engineering tires from flowers; flushed anti-anxiety meds are making fish jittery.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Synthetic marijuana is giving Maryland lawmakers real problems, prompting some to make the manufacture, possession or distribution of the drug illegal throughout the state.