Topic: DRUGS - on May 17, 2014 at 5:48:00 PM CEST
How Pfizer Helped Make ‘Spice,’ The Deadly Fake Pot
A designer drug tied to deaths of thousands partially initiated in the labs of one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies.
In 1979, three researchers at Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant, came up with a synthetic cannabinoid—a drug that, in some ways, acts similarily to the active ingredient in marijuana. What the company did with this research, it won’t say. But decades later, a designer drug marketed as “fake pot” began to emerge—first in Europe, later in America—that went on to be blamed for contributing to tens of thousands of trips to the emergency room. One of the five active substances in that “fake pot”—also known as “Spice” or “K2”—was the synthetic cannabinoid first discovered at Pfizer.
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