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K2: Fake Marijuana Can Be Dangerous to Kids Health
Marijuana Makes Everything Better Marijuana for Morons How to Smoke Weed the Right Way Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Lies Fake marijuana, also known as K2, gives a high that is similar to marijuana and kids today are smoking it. As if parents needed something new to watch out for, K2 is supposed to be a legal high but doctors are seeing something other than a mild high.
What is K2 and Fake Marijuana
K2 is known as fake pot or fake marijuana and sold with brand names like K2 Blonde, K2 Summit, Spice, Spice Gold, Spice Silver, Spice Diamond, Zohai, Yucatan Fire and Genie and other names. K2 and similar products are made in Korea and China and sold as incense or potpourri. These fake marijuana products can be bought on the internet, smoke shops and found in the incense sections of stores. Store owners have said kids are buying so much that they cannot keep it on the shelves.
K2 has been sold over the internet since 2006, and now kids in the US have discovered it as a legal high that is supposed to be like marijuana. The natural ingredient in marijuana that gets people high is THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol). In the 1990s, a chemist at Clemson University made a synthetic product that was similar to THC and named it JWH-018.
K2 is herbs or spices sprayed with a synthetic product like JWH-018 to supposedly give a legal high like marijuana. JWH-018 is three times more potent than naturally occurring THC in marijuana is. JWH-018 and similar synthetically made products are called synthetic cannabinoids or mimicking cannabinoids and were developed to test the effects of THC on mice, not to be taken by humans.
In March 2009, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) received and analyzed a shipment of these foil packets with the name of Spice Gold and inside was dried plant looking material. What the DEA found was that all of these packets contained not only the synthetic cannabinoids JWH-018 but also very small amounts of HU-210. HU-210 is a hundred times more potent than the natural THC found in marijuana.
