{"id":2216,"date":"2019-08-19T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T00:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/new-tests-uncover-killer-cannabinoids\/"},"modified":"2019-08-19T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T00:24:15","slug":"new-tests-uncover-killer-cannabinoids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/new-tests-uncover-killer-cannabinoids\/","title":{"rendered":"New tests uncover killer cannabinoids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie University researcher Shivani Sachdev has developed new tests to analyse synthetic cannabinoids and found some are up to 300 times more powerful than the cannabis plant\u2026a group of drugs causing hundreds of deaths and hundreds of hospitalisations around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSynthetic drugs are cheap, potent and widely available \u2013 and they have become a dangerous epidemic, literally poisoning people all over the world,\u201d says Sachdev.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have died from just a small dose of some of these synthetic cannabinoids, which act in very different ways to the plant and which are far more potent,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Sachdev\u2019s research has compared the activity of more than 20 different synthetic cannabinoids to the psychoactive ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), found in the cannabis plant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first research to quantify the strength of these compounds and what we found is very disturbing; 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