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Synthetic cannabis, also popularly known as ‘spice’ or ‘k2,’ may boost the risk of a stroke in young users, warn US doctors writing in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
The warning follows their treatment of a 25 year old prison inmate who had no family history of heart disease or traditional cardiovascular risk factors, and who was left with a permanent disability.
He was brought to emergency care in a state of severe confusion, with weakness on the right side of his body and double incontinence.
Prison warders had found him collapsed on the bathroom floor and thought that he might have used synthetic marijuana as a ‘suspicious’ looking substance had been found by his side, and he had had several episodes of confusion after using ‘spice’ in the preceding six months.
He had smoked cigarettes for five years, but had given up two years previously, and tests for traditional cardiovascular risk factors were all within the normal range.
But a scan revealed an extensive area of stroke and swelling in…
