Fake weed causing hallucinations
All about the latest K2, spice, fake weed, legal high trend.
Teens are getting high on an emerging drug called "fake weed," a concoction also known as K2 and "spice" that is also causing hallucinations, vomiting, agitation and other dangerous effects.
In the last month, Dr. Anthony Scalzo, a professor of toxicology at Saint Louis University, has seen nearly 30 cases of teenagers experiencing these adverse effects after smoking the fake weed, a legal substance that reportedly offers a marijuana-like high.
"K2 use is not limited to the Midwest; reports of its use are cropping up all over the country," Scalzo said. "I think K2 is likely a bigger problem than we're aware of at this time." For instance, Atlanta has seen about 12 cases recently.
K2 has been sold since 2006 as incense or potpourri for about $30 to $40 per three gram bag – comparable in cost to marijuana.
"K2 may be a mixture of herbal and spice plant products, but it is sprayed with a potent psychotropic drug and likely contaminated with an unknown toxic substance that is causing many adverse effects," said Scalzo, who also directs the Missouri Regional Poison Control Center.
NOTE: There have been reports of people getting sick from certain batches of k2. This article indicates that there may be an unknown contaminant in some types of spice product (any guesses?). We have no evidence to confirm this, but some batches of spice or K2 may include more than you bargained for.
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I've smoked weed more times than I can count and enjoy every bit of it.
I took to 2 hits of this and I lost it. I thought I was going to die. The hallucinations I felt were beyond scary. My heart was pounding. I was sweating and for almost 2 hours I thought I had lost my mind.
I really thought I was going to end up in a psych ward.
I threw up perfusely for about 30 minutes. Felt better after that but still felt more agitation then I've ever felt in my life.
If it wasn't for my boyfriend (who smokes this regularly), I don't know what would have happened. This stuff affects everyone differently and he was completely confused but now realizes that this stuff can cause a lot of harm if your body reacts negatively to it. Be careful! SERIOUSLY
I will never, ever touch this stuff again.
great degree, what created the problem in the first place. You're killing your
daughter." You're calling for prohibition. Prohibition created these drugs. What makes you think that the world is magically going to start working in a different way?
I am sticking with the product for now in lighter doses. It was the perfect replacement for a 20 year pot smoker who had a professional career. I still think it does what it is supposed to do, however I may just have built up a tolerance to the point where my tolerance level and the "I'm going to be sick" line are just so close together than I cross over it to often. I had never had a hangover on this until they banned K2 and JWH so it could be they changed up chemicals.
be sourced for something like $85/gram, and a gram has hundreds of dose units, so it works out to something like twenty cents a dose), people who are really interested in this should consider making their own. That way you know what's in it, and it's a lot less expensive.
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