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Synthetic Marijuana Gives Users Legal High NEW YORK, July 10, 2010 Only 6 States Ban Use of Drug Commonly Referred to as K2; High Can be up to 15 Times More Powerful than Marijuana By Seth Doane (CBS) Across the country, demand for a synthetic form of marijuana is soaring. Unlike the real thing, this drug - called spice or K2 - is legal in most states. Now, a handful of lawmakers are taking action. This week Missouri became the sixth state to ban the use of K2. It's a designer drug fad fueled online, CBS News Correspondent Seth Doane reports. Brian Siegal first heard about it from friends and then saw it on the Internet. "The word gets out so quickly and just spreads like wildfire," Siegel said. It has names like spice and genie but is mostly known as K2, providing a high likened to marijuana. If you have not heard of it yet, staffers at places such as the Georgia Poison Center sure have, fielding more than 50 calls about K2 in the last two months. "We started seeing a mushrooming of calls," Dr. Gaylor Lopez, director of the Georgia Poison Center, said. Nationwide, more than 500 people have phoned poison centers about the drug already this year, up from just 12 calls last year. The synthetic marijuana is packaged in brightly colored bags and may only look harmless. "This is incredibly dangerous," Lopez said. K2 can be up to 15 times more powerful than marijuana and lead to a disturbing range of symptoms, Lopez said. "We've seen people with slight tremors to even seizure activity," Lopez said. Still, K2 is legal in 44 states and easy to get anywhere. The six states banning the drug are Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Missouri. Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and New York are considering bans. "You can order it online, and you can get it in magazines," said Siegel. "Very easy to get." It's not detected by drug-tests either. "It's like a dream come true for an addict," Jason Schmider, a K2 drug user, said. Schmider tried the drug more than 50 times until he wound up in the hospital, he said. "That was the final straw," he said. Then, he found himself at drug treatment center called Phoenix House outside New York City. Meanwhile, the Drug Enforcement Administration is trying to learn what's in the drug itself. CBS News was granted rare access at a special testing facility near Washington, D.C. 'They'll market it as incense, or bath salts," DEA Special Agent Gary Boggs said. Tests are part of deciding whether spice and K2 should be a controlled substance, Boggs said. "The fact that they're legal really is almost irrelevant," said Boggs. "People are just basically playing Russian roulette with these every time they take them." That's a gamble that means months of rehab for Schmider. "It was like the scariest moment of my life," said Schmider. "It's not worth it." That's a warning drowned out by the quickly spreading reputation of a powerful high that's legal, easy to get and hard to detect.
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never tried it and probably wont after reading that, but if I was on probation it'd be a must.....haha. Has anyone ever tried it? I dont understand how that can be legal when marijuana is illegal unless prescribed
Posted on: 07/13 08:23 PM
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Yeah, I wonder if thats the same crap as Salvia.
I heard that stuff was way worse than MJ. And it's still legal and kids are using it.
Posted on: 07/16 11:15 AM
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Actually I know several ppl who sell it in their health food stores around town. Pretty much old ladies with arthritis buy the stuff. From what I am told it has very little effects at all. You could probably get the same high drinking beer through a straw.
It does however have some pain relieving properties from what a few acquaintances in town have told me but after hearing what pain medicines I am taking currently they told me it most likely would not help. I just found this article extremely farcical after knowing ppl that have taken it and doing a bit of real research on my own. I actually meant to post a reply when I posted this article explaining what I was told from store owners and a few friends here in Reno about this so called new "evil" drug but I got side-tracked with RL and completely forgot about it. And no I was not heavily medicated at the time. ;) And I just have to ask this... How do you take something 50 times before you decide you are tired of the horrible affect it has on you? I mean come on, that statement has to be completely made up just for sensationalism of the article.
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