ELI5: Extent of damage to my brain from synthetic marijuana use?

The biggest problem with the new synthetic drugs is that nobody actually knows how much damage they actually do. If sobering caused seizures, it's a really bad sign but nobody knows what the actual damage might be.

Since there is no regulation, nobody knows what drugs you have actually been using our had a chance to study them.

When you die, studying truly brain will be the best way we have of learning what they do. Please stop and use drugs that we know what they might do, you're taking a huge risk with your health that nigh result in permanent damage that can't be repaired.

They are not natural substances. They are synthetics. What kept them legal in most states for so long is what has also made them more and more dangerous. The government has tried outlawing them several times but when a law is passed it contained the chemical make up of them so all the makers did was change the chemicals. Some states went around it by outlawing the name and the makers changed the name. Unfortunately the damage is likely long term with little to nothing you can do about it. Even the military has a hard time testing for it because the chemicals to test for vary. But essentially you're putting different extremely dangerous chemicals into your body that only the makers really know what it is because they are always changing it.

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