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JWH-018 was a very popular synthetic but of course it got banned so the supply dried up. It's more of a problem in younger lower class urban areas where the newly created not-yet-banned synthetics are sold as research chemicals or legal highs in head shops and gas stations. It's quite widespread, just not talked about often, because when media runs stories, things get banned.

Here's a video from one research chemist (Dr Zee) talking about his work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0NRsaPmVX8

While a very small list compared to the number of available chemicals, there are commercially available EMIT kits for the screening of the synthetic cannabinoids JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-398, JWH-200, JWH-019, JWH-122, JWH-081, JWH-250, JWH-203, CP-47,497, CP-47,497-C8, HU-210, HU-211, AM-2201, AM-694, RCS-4, and RCS-8 through companies like NMS Labs, Cayman Chemical, and Immunoanalysis Corporation. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00032...