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K2: Fake weed arrives in Tampa
    #13395818 - 10/27/10 03:28 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

SOURCE: http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/health/k2%3A-fake-weed-arrives-in-tampa

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TAMPA - Some consider it a dangerous drug but it's perfectly legal to buy here in the Bay Area. Called K2 or spice, this fake weed can get you high but can it also get you arrested?

It looks like marijuana, smokes like marijuana, gets you high like marijuana and it's perfectly legal. A Tampa man who is now a recovering addict says, “I could literally smoke this in front of a cop and they might have something to say about it but there is nothing they can technically do about it."

More and more people are getting stoned on an emerging drug called fake weed- a concoction also known as Spice, Genie and more commonly: K2.

Where'd K2 come from? A lab, where a scientist created a synthetic form of THC - the active ingredient in marijuana- for research. So how did his chemical compound get out of the lab, onto the street and eventually sprayed onto potpourri - no body knows but we do know the fake weed has arrived here.

We took an undercover camera into smoke shops in the Tampa Bay area. At every location they knew about K2. It's sold to use as incense, incense that in one case took a password "coconuts" to buy.

Our recovering addict, who asked us not to identify him, tells us, “It's sold in little bags. It's 20-30 dollars a gram for it.”

Recovering at Turning Point in Tampa, our addict says the stuff may be fake, but the effect is very real. “Typically munchies, light headedness, mild hallucinations, and red eyes."

Because the chemical is not THC, he says drug tests can't pick it up.

“The products appear to be more potent. There is no quality control.” Cynthia Lewis Younger, with Poison Control, says young people think they're being slick - but they have no idea of the potential side effects. “There is nausea, vomiting, hallucinations, and even seizures have been reported."

It’s a risk many are willing to take. “I was actually pulled over by a cop for having red eyes. She asked if I’d been using and I said, ‘No I haven't been smoking anything illegal. I just smoked some spice. I'm going to guess the police know about this because she took it well. I mean typically when I was using illegal substances I couldn't drive around in a car with a wooden pipe and a bag of marijuana, but with this stuff I can drive around with a 5ft hookah and a big bag."

We asked Laura McElroy, the spokesperson for the Tampa Police Department, about a recovering addict basically mocking police. “I’d say he got a lucky break that time. If he'd been pulled over by a Tampa Police officer he'd have ended up behind bars. If you're driving impaired, whether it’s an illegal substance or something like K2, you're impaired and you can go to jail.”

But can you be prosecuted? That, according to a spokesperson for the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office is a grey area. They have yet to see a DUI case involving K2 test the judicial system locally.

State Representative Darryl Rouson says there are so many legal products people can get high off of you can't ban them all but he would support “creating legislation that first creates a deterrent, second creates more awareness and thirdly makes it illegal for those to push it or sell it."

Rouson may not have to wait long to take a side on K2. A Florida chapter of the United Way is looking closely at the synthetic marijuana. Their commission on substance abuse is organizing a game plan that might include pushing for legislation to make this fake weed illegal.



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Re: K2: Fake weed arrives in Tampa [Re: SyPhy]
    #13395964 - 10/27/10 03:56 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Knives are dangerous too if you don't follow the instructions. If you shave up some plastic and smoke it, that doesn't mean you need to ban plastic. The directions do not say "smoke this" anywhere, anyone who smokes it is stupid. Don't ban something because people are not following the directions.

"it looks like marijuana"

Wow! Where in the hell do they get their marijuana from? I have NEVER once seen marijuana that looks like K2 or Spice. Not even remotely close. It looks like something you would put on a pizza, not in a pipe!

"it smokes like marijuana"

No the hell it does not! Not even close!

Does not get you high like marijuana.

Show your ID when you buy it, encourage them to ID people to be 18 or 21 to buy it. This will prevent MANY problems.

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Re: K2: Fake weed arrives in Tampa [Re: SyPhy]
    #13396051 - 10/27/10 04:08 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

recovering addict?:shrug:

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Re: K2: Fake weed arrives in Tampa [Re: stickfigure]
    #13396072 - 10/27/10 04:11 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Yeah K2 is in pretty much every gas station in Tampa. Not just the smoke shops. There's a gas station across the street from the DMV that has 3g bags for $12.50. Cheapest in town.


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Re: K2: Fake weed arrives in Tampa [Re: guest1]
    #13396240 - 10/27/10 04:40 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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Knives are dangerous too if you don't follow the instructions. If you shave up some plastic and smoke it, that doesn't mean you need to ban plastic. The directions do not say "smoke this" anywhere, anyone who smokes it is stupid. Don't ban something because people are not following the directions.





Ok well its not like they just sell incense and people smoked it and figured out it got you high. They sell it as incense with the intention of getting you high. One of the chemicals in spice is JWH-018. And i would say the high is a lot like marijuana. The fact that its a synthetic version of THC. I dont see how spice went illegal in a lot of states but salvia is still sold at plaid pantry and places a-like.


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Re: K2: Fake weed arrives in Tampa [Re: 1kldude]
    #13396516 - 10/27/10 05:35 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Jesus she writes like a 12 year old. Her poor english skills are more offensive than the article itself.


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Re: K2: Fake weed arrives in Tampa [Re: 1kldude]
    #13396743 - 10/27/10 06:58 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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Knives are dangerous too if you don't follow the instructions. If you shave up some plastic and smoke it, that doesn't mean you need to ban plastic. The directions do not say "smoke this" anywhere, anyone who smokes it is stupid. Don't ban something because people are not following the directions.





Ok well its not like they just sell incense and people smoked it and figured out it got you high. They sell it as incense with the intention of getting you high. One of the chemicals in spice is JWH-018. And i would say the high is a lot like marijuana. The fact that its a synthetic version of THC. I dont see how spice went illegal in a lot of states but salvia is still sold at plaid pantry and places a-like.





JWH is not chemically similar to THC, the chemicals just happen to bind to the CB1 and CB2 receptors which cause some similar effects.  I hope you (or anyone reading this) don't believe JWH is THC that is man-made, because that is called Marinol and Dronabinal which is THC + seseme-seed-oil in a pill form. JWH is much more of a risk to ingest and the most common side effect of a large dose is ultra fast heart beat and severe panic/fear/anxiousness. THC does not cause those side effects, however, I hope they don't ban K2/Spice/JWH in Florida too. Things would be soo much better if they would just go ahead and legalize cannabis for buying/cultivation/possessing/consuming.

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Re: K2: Fake weed arrives in Tampa [Re: guest1]
    #13397372 - 10/27/10 08:55 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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guest1 said:
Knives are dangerous too if you don't follow the instructions. If you shave up some plastic and smoke it, that doesn't mean you need to ban plastic. The directions do not say "smoke this" anywhere, anyone who smokes it is stupid. Don't ban something because people are not following the directions.





Ok well its not like they just sell incense and people smoked it and figured out it got you high. They sell it as incense with the intention of getting you high. One of the chemicals in spice is JWH-018. And i would say the high is a lot like marijuana. The fact that its a synthetic version of THC. I dont see how spice went illegal in a lot of states but salvia is still sold at plaid pantry and places a-like.





JWH is not chemically similar to THC, the chemicals just happen to bind to the CB1 and CB2 receptors which cause some similar effects.  I hope you (or anyone reading this) don't believe JWH is THC that is man-made, because that is called Marinol and Dronabinal which is THC + seseme-seed-oil in a pill form. JWH is much more of a risk to ingest and the most common side effect of a large dose is ultra fast heart beat and severe panic/fear/anxiousness. THC does not cause those side effects, however, I hope they don't ban K2/Spice/JWH in Florida too. Things would be soo much better if they would just go ahead and legalize cannabis for buying/cultivation/possessing/consuming.



THC in large amounts does cause Panic/fear/anxiousness
Some people get these "Panic" attacks heart beat increases blood pressure...etc...etc.

  All this bullshit tho over this K2 and spice shit is that why go through the trouble??? Why are they looking for this new high when the old high (Smoking cannabis) has been around for years!!! and has shown great promising effects to what it can and cannot do. If they have salvia legal why not mushrooms or LSD??
K2 and JWH?? Why not just legalize pot already goddammit i swear the governments are run by retarded dim witted fucks now there going the research route by letting are youth get ahold of this shit?? Give me a fucking break here...It doesn't take a genius to know this shit it doesn't take a doctor to tell you the facts its all there and has been there for the past 90 years...so has tobacco facts?? And what remains taxed and regulated ?? :facepalm: complete fucking idiots.

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Re: K2: Fake weed arrives in Tampa [Re: guest1]
    #13398952 - 10/28/10 01:57 AM (13 years, 6 months ago)

I wasn't aware large doses of THC caused those things. One of my friends told me that it does, and now your the second person. I guess it is true, maybe it is not as common among lite smokers.

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