Synthetic marijuana's effect on brain
K2 is a combination of plant materials and two synthetic cannabinoids, according to Jeremiah Morris, a forensic scientist for the Johnson County Criminalistics Laboratory in Mission, Kan. The laboratory ran an analysis on K2 in October 2009 after noticing an increase in use in Johnson County.
"They found K2 to contain lab-produced drugs that act on the same part of the brain as marijuana," Morris said.
But the compounds in K2 are three to five times more potent than THC found in marijuana. Morris compared the effects of K2's compounds to a lock-and-key mechanism in which the lock is a receptor site of the brain and the key is the drug's compounds. The "keys" in K2 compounds are keys that fit the brain's "lock" better than those in marijuana.
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