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05/10/2018 / By Edsel Cook

More than 100 people have become sick by smoking synthetic marijuana contaminated with rat poison

An article in LiveScience reports that more than 100 people in five states have ended up in the hospital or even losing their lives after smoking synthetic marijuana. Experts believe the drug is tainted by rat poison that caused severe bleeding in users. The first such incidents took place at the start of March 2018. Before the […]

02/17/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

RAT POISON USE has resulted in new “super rodent” rats that are immune to chemical poisons

No one wants to have rats in their home, but it turns out that using rat poison to deal with the pests could ultimately have the opposite effect. British households are being warned that rats are growing resistant to poison because of a genetic mutation known as L120Q. This mutation essentially renders the poison ineffective, […]

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