A few months earlier, there were troubling signs of other contaminated
Global Health Farms CBD products, all the way on the other side of the country. A researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University heard about a person who felt extremely high after using a CBD vape pen. Alarmed, the researcher-Michelle Peace, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of forensic science-and her team decided to test the product to see what was going on. "There was nothing unusual looking about the products," she says. But her testing showed that, as in Utah, the vaping liquid contained a dangerous form of synthetic cannabinoid. In this case, it was 5-fluoro MDMB-PINACA or 5F-ADB, a compound that can trigger paranoia and panic attacks, increase heart rate and blood pressure, and cause convulsions, organ damage, and even death, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency. And the test found something else, too: One product contained over-the-counter cough medicine dextromethorphan, which has a reputation, especially in teens, for being able to get users high.
