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spiegel.de

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Calling all parents: Has your son or daughter taken an interest in tea or have they brought home anything that resembles incense lately?

If so, be warned: What your child might have is K2 or “Spice,” which is basically synthetic cannabis – or what is more commonly known as marijuana.

And for the time being, it is completely legal.

K2 is a mixture of herbs and spices that have been sprayed with a synthetic compound, including the chemicals JWH-018, JWH-703, HU-210, HU-211.

echopress.com

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Springville Friday joined the growing list of cities to ban Spice. It's the latest effort in a mounting battle against a war on designer drugs. Spice is undetectable in standard drug tests -- new lab tests will catch it. But those tests could become outdated almost as soon as they're developed.

An Arizona-based lab created a test that can detect four commonly-used forms of fake marijuana or spice. While it's a start, law enforcement and pharmacological experts say staying ahead of the manufacturers of these substances remains a cat-and-mouse game

ksl.com

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Barry Logan, PhD, NMS Labs National Director of Forensic Services notes, “There have been signs from activity on the Internet, that as states such as Missouri, Pennsylvania and others moved to ban these new recreational drugs that manufacturers have switched to related but chemically distinct products which have the same intoxicating effects, but are not covered by the statutes.” NMS Labs has been testing incense products purchased over the internet since the Spring in order to develop much needed tests to assist health care providers, drug rehabilitation centers, law enforcement officials, reference labs, and others with the detection of synthetic marijuana use.

kansascity.com
inforum.com
fox21online.com

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Biloxi police arrested a Baton Rouge man Thursday night for possessing close to 300 pounds of spice.

Police stopped Hasan Zaben, 31, on Interstate 10 for careless driving. That's when an officer noticed a small amount of Spice in plain view. During a search of the vehicle, officers said they found about 300 pounds of spice packaged under several names.

wlbt.com

4:20 statt Spice

We live in a golden age of American cannabis connoisseurship. Pineapple Express and Blue Dream can be found from coast to coast. But some people have been passing on all the excellent pot in favor of a new designer drug - K2, Spice and other products containing synthetic cannabinoids - being sold and smoked in the United States. Marketed as incense, they can be purchased in head shops in silver pouches that contain random plant matter sprayed with chemicals.

celebstoner.com

4:20 statt Spice

Nearly a dozen states and several cities are banning or debating bans on K2 — a packet of herbs coated with a synthetic chemical that mimics a marijuana high when it's smoked — amid fears that its use is spreading among young people.

usatoday.com

4:20 statt Spice

The latest trend at teen parties isn't warm beer or prescription medicines pilfered from parents' medicine cabinets. Instead, increasing numbers of youths are turning to an herb-based product to get high, and unlike marijuana, it's perfectly legal.

It's known as K2 or Spice, a synthetic substance that, when smoked, gives users a marijuana-like high, according to drug authorities. Its growing popularity is causing increasing alarm among health care professionals, law enforcement authorities and lawmakers, with one Drug Enforcement Agency official calling its use the equivalent of "playing Russian roulette."

cnn.com
fox2now.com

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