Synthetic Marijuana
by Jeffrey Miron on July 12th, 2010
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ST. LOUIS — Seated at a hookah lounge in the Tower Grove district, Albert Kuo trained his lighter above a marbleized glass pipe stuffed with synthetic marijuana. Inhaling deeply, Mr. Kuo, an art student at an area college, singed the pipe’s leafy contents, emitting a musky cloud of smoke into the afternoon light.
Mr. Kuo, 25, had gathered here with a small cohort of friends for what could be the last time they legally get high in Missouri on a substance known popularly as K2, a blend of herbs treated with synthetic marijuana.
Read the rest here. One lesson seems to be that technology allows the private sector to circumvent government limits on private behavior.
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Contrary to popular belief, K2 isn’t really synthetic THC. That claim seems a little farfetched to me. As a pot smoker who has experimented with K2, I have to say that K2 is far worse than pot. K2 tastes awful and it smells even worse, the high isn’t very good, and it’s possible to get waaaay to high off of K2. On the other hand, pot has a rather pleasant taste/smell, unless you’re smoking something like skunk, and a pot high is very pleasant. The worst that can happen from pot when you smoke “too much” is that you’ll fall asleep and then wake up and eat everything in your fridge. Pot is a very mild drug that should be legalized, if only to drive legal herbs like K2, lion’s tail, and salvia off the market.
k2 incense
The amount of synthetic cannabinoids in an herbal incense blend varies which I think explains the wide range of reactions to it.