Massachusetts Unregulated
If your talking about K2, Black Magic and others, just ask at a gas station, don't say you are going to smoke it, it is an incense and go ahead and show your ID, because they need to ID people and not sell to people under 18 and by showing them before you get it, you might encourage them to ask for ID if they don't.
Should you try it? Eh..... That is up to you and your level of risk your willing to take. THC from cannabis is a legal risk, but smoking too much is safer and easier to deal with than smoking too much of this stuff, IMO.
My personal WARNING:I have never tried K2, but I want to make it clear that too much of a JWH chemical being smoked is hell. If you have heart problems or can not ingest stimulants like caffeine or energy drinks, I recommend you just stay away, because too much will increase your heart rate a LOT. Some people are allergic to the plants they put it on and have bad reactions I have read about seizures and comma. If you have smoked THC before, imagine if you were able to get about 4 to 20 times higher, to a level where you feel like your in an overpowering bad hallucinating trip with the fear of dying. When you smoke THC, you can smoke pretty much as much as you want without any worry or care, with this stuff, you have to be careful that you don't over do it. I know several people personally that have done too much and none of them liked it. It is sorta like the effects get reversed at a certain dosage and go from good to bad. Instead of THC where when you do TOO MUCH the room may feel like it is spinning (like alcohol), instead, everything seems amplified out of control and you don't feel calm and relaxed and sleepy, you feel anxious and helpless and afraid. I say that it is closest to eating too many mushrooms, without the nausea and only lasting 1-4 hours instead of 2-12 hours. The more you do, the longer it lasts, but it is better to do small doses you can handle.
What to do if you do too much:OK, now that I hopefully have helped you understand what can happen... If you do smoke too much, you probably don't need to go to the Emergency Room like you may wonder if you need to or not because of the intensity level being beyond your threshold. What you should do is get up and do something active, if your room is messy, start cleaning your room, if you have trash, take out your trash, sitting still will make it worse. You can try eating something healthy and drinking some water. The most useful thing I know of though, is [gradient:#FFAA00,#]St. Johns Wort[/gradient] pills 300mg or whatever strength. They won't sober you up, but taking 1-3 of them CAN (not saying 100% guaranteed, it depends on the person) help calm you down and lower your level of panic to a tolerable level. They also seem to help with overdosing on a mushroom trip and possibly other things. I think it only works if you take it after you feel the effects of doing too much, so don't take it ahead of time, because then you won't have anything you can take when you peak too high. I recommend keeping the bottle in plain site with a bottle/cup of water so that you can take it in a moments notice if needed.
Where to buy:Gas stations or online, $20 for 3g My friend told me other brands are cheaper, like Black Magic and some other one I can't remember the name of, but K2 is the one in the news headlines, and Spice is said to be illegal in the US because it contains a banned chemical on it. I have seen similar stuff on ebay for cheap, but I don't know if I would trust them, you may have more varied potency than one you can buy in a store, because it might just be people sitting at home "doing their best" and trying to profit.
OK, now on to JWH, JWH is the active ingredient, although the herbs they put it on, usually have some effect on their own or make the chemical act more effectively. As far as the chemical it's self goes, if you were to buy just the chemical, you can put it on some organic food-grade catnip. I don't recommend putting it on cannabis, because that is like pouring liquor into beer, why would you do that? With the powder and using it in a water pipe on catnip or other herbs, there is a super fine line between not enough to way too much. Powder the size of a fire ant is too much. Maybe the size of 4 of it's legs is good, the size of it's head would be an extremely strong dose. However, dosage depends completely on how efficient your smoking device is. I have heard of people trying to vaporize it off foil and having to use a TON of it for a slight effect, and a pipe using a medium amount, a tiny water pipe also a medium amount, and a nice size water pipe using an extremely small amount.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWH-018 (legal status worldwide)
Best prices I have found for that changes constantly, daily sometimes:
Purity can vary sometimes, but it is located in USA.
$5 shipping (i think, i forgot)250mg $12.50
1g $28
2g $52
5g $115
and so on.
There is also JWH-073, JWH-250 and others, which all effect the CBD1 and CBD2 receptors at different levels, but all are more potent than THC.
APPROXIMATE CBD receptor, I rounded up and down. The lower the number is, the stronger it is. I labeled then weak/strong as to which number is higher/lower, THC has a higher affinity to CBD2 because 36 is lower than 40. the number after it is when i divided the 2 numbers, for data analysis.
.........THC: 40, 36 (weak/strong) 1.118
.JWH-250: 11, 33 (strong/weak) 0.333
.JWH-073: 9,38 (strong/weak) 0.236
.JWH-200: 8,42 (strong/weak) 0.190
.JWH-018: 7, 3 (weak/strong) 2.333
CP55,940:
0.58,
0.69 (strong/weak) 0.840
(Dangerously potent)If they had a JWH that was 40,36 or 20,18 or 10,9 that would likely be the best one(s).
I don't know if it is OK or not to post the website or to tell you how to find this site, but with some creative searching you can find it and you can use the prices to compare to other websites. I recommend only buying from USA because buying from China or Morocco or on alibaba is very risky, you may get nothing or you may get extremely un-pure stuff.
Do you recommend it?:As with Salvia D., I don't recommend this to anyone, in fact, when using a water pipe, the effects hit you as fast and powerful as Salvia D. except if you take a lot of JWH, you don't black out and go to Salvia Land, you stay here and are terrified. I am also saying that it is not the worst thing in the world, and for responsible adults, I think it is fine. If you are smoking it, you should limit your smoking because of the unknown long term effects. If cannabis was legal, there would be very little reason to mess with this stuff and you would wait until research was done, but instead, cannabis is illegal and this stuff is getting banned quicker than salvia. The advantages of it are that if used in a proper device, 1 gram could last you months or even a year or so, and a benefit is that you don't have to smoke a ton of it, so by smoking less substances, that makes it healthier in that aspect, as far as the carcinogens jwh creates and unknown long term damage, that is a risk.
UN-Regulated Legal highs: (well, damiana may be regulated in some countries, idk)
As 1 final thing to say. These 3 things are legal nationwide in USA and most countries if not all. If your looking for a very mild relaxing high where you don't have to worry about breaking the law and you don't want to use something that is very risky, I only know of a few alternatives.
Damiana is an herb, but the smoke is VERY VERY VERY harsh, however you can make a tea out of it.
Catnip is a very very non-harsh smoke, but debatable if its better/worse than damiana.
Lastly, believe it or not, is something from InternationOddities called "Black O" which they say "a very popular smoke in the 60's" which is probably a lie, but their claim alludes to them saying that it has been used for at least 50 years now. You have to watch them though, because they carefully craft sentences to get you to "assume" what their saying is what you believe their saying, but that isn't always what they are really saying. If they say "HIGHEST quality" they don't mean it will get you high. Anyway, it is some sort of herbal extracts in a hash-like presentation with a strong spearmint smell + grape + other smells I am not familiar with but smells nice and interesting. They still sell it and it has not been banned anywhere in the world and it does have effects, I personally like to put a few tiny crumbs of it on top of some catnip and smoke it and not have to worry about being arrested for THC or having a panic attack form JWH. It cost $10 shipping which makes it $45 to get an ounce shipped to you and they give you a pack of hemp rolling papers and a hand rolling machine. I HIGHLY recommend you avoid the temptation to buy any of their "legal buds" because I have tried the "blueberry buds" and it was useless nasty crap and I never finished smoking it and gave some away because I hated it. I have read about other REAL people who tried other things and it seems almost everyone says all their "legal buds" are crap. Sure they look neat, but you won't like smoking it.
If you want "legal buds" catnip and damiana and maybe pinch in a tiny bit of some red raspberry leaf for flavor, and if you want a solid smoke with nice effects I recommend Black "O". I do occasionally smoke other legal herbs, which I could make a post about all the herbs I have smoked and write a detailed summery for each evaluation of them, but those are by far the top 3.
Sorry for an even longer post. I just don't see anyone else saying this and wanted to post it somewhere on the internet so that someone could come across this and it may help keep them from having a bad experience or wasting their money.