No. Even though synthetic drugs are legal, they are way more
dangerous for a user than natural drugs. Synthetic drugs can be bought online,
from stores and head shops making it easy to get high for a much cheaper price
for similar effects. These drugs just became legal in the United States in July
of 2012 and are used for recreational purposes. Most users, use synthetic drugs
because they won’t show up on drug test, so they are still able to get high and
get away with it. Synthetic drugs like K2 which is synthetic marijuana is
50-100% more potent than natural marijuana. Natural Marijuana binds to about
half of the receptors in the brain which then pushes users to use another drug
to have the full high. But Synthetic marijuana binds to 100% of the receptors,
this is the only drug that can do this. Synthetic drugs are more dangerous
because they are man-made and chemically produced. These vast ranges of
chemicals can be 2-500 times more potent than THC. The synthetic drugs aren’t
illegal because they manufacturers have gotten away with the way they label
their products which make them legal. And by making these drugs legal people
tend to trust them more but that isn’t true because within the year of
2010-2011 calls to the American Poison Control Center had quadrupled. Short
term effects other than being very addictive is elevated fever, from 110-115,
which can cause death because at that temperature your body cannot regulate
itself if there are chemicals working against it. Long term effects are unknown
because these drugs are so new but they effect the body like ecstasy so later down
the road there is a large possibility that brain damage will be found.
Karla K.
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