Synthetic Marijuana On The Rise, Sending Kids To ER

[Cerberus]

The use of synthetic marijuana is on the rise for kids in the US. The “benefits” of the synthetic form are that less drug can produce a stronger high, and it doesn’t show up in most routine lab tests, which makes it doubly attractive to kids. But with increased potency comes increased risk of serious effects. And they may be long-term, based on what we know about the developing brain. Hospitals are seeing more and more cases of synthetic pot intoxication, and poison control centers are receiving escalating numbers of calls about the drug.

 

Synthetic pot also goes by “K2,” “Spice,” “Aroma,” “Mr. Smiley,” “Zohai,” “Eclipse,” “Black Mamba,” “Red X Dawn,” “Blaze,” and “Dream.” Until fairly recently it was still available at convenience stores and gas stations, and only became a controlled substance in February of this year. Three emergency room doctors at a Washington, DC hospital discuss the cases of three teenagers being brought in to the ER for synthetic marijuana intoxication in a new report in Pediatrics...

 

http://www.forbes.co...ing-kids-to-er/

[smashed1]

hi cerb yer i deff think its dangerouse, i smoked a far bit of it around christmass till few weeks ago, it deff speed'd me up i perfer the mellow stone pot gives much better ,

 

but what i did notice was i had a very lot of truble concentrating riteing reading an watching tv , just couldnt take nothing in in the end , when i started smokeing my stuff i noticed heaps a diffrence much better now , ill be going back to the dealers i think when i run out , id get atleast 4 grams a week of hectick , only cause i was sick of the dealers crap , i wouldnt advise smokeing much that stuff , the prozac from doctors was doing the same thing to me as well , probly worse , fuck them synthetic perthetic drugs , it pritty much took about 3/ 4 days before me concentration came back for both the drugs ,

Edited April 16, 2012 by smashed1

[The Hash Nibbler]

Thats what happens when ya only synthesize the THC and none of the other compounds that make up cannabis....Terpinoids, CBD's etc are all missing from these products. Manufacturers of this shit should hang there heads in shame.... all about the $$$$ guys......bet ya none of em are donating money to help the legalization of cannabis.......... or giving a shit about the end user.........Cannabis 25% THC + all the goodies....... SAFE and proven for well over 2000 years, not one fatality.

Artificiallly Manufactured-Artificial THC content 50%+ with none of the other components to balance it out ..........Deaths, Respitory failure, Heart problems, the list goes on.........

Laws gotta be changed the REAL Criminals are doing more harm legally than Cannabis will ever do, from now till the end of time....... Peace. Nibbler.

[smashed1]

.......Cannabis 25% THC + all the goodies....... SAFE and proven for well over 2000 years, not one fatality.

Artificiallly Manufactured-Artificial THC content 50%+ with none of the other components to balance it out ................ Peace. Nibbler.

 

yep you probly on to sumthing there, but i was smokeing it constantly every 2 / 3 days wasnt long anoth to get out of the system , , but the concentration thing was deff notacible , didnt have truble doing things with me hands or nothing just reading /riteing an watching tv 5 mins a watching sumthing my mind was woundering off didnt realize it was that crap till i stop'd it i ask'd doctor he just said its cause the painkillers n shit i takeing , shows ya how much they no

Edited April 16, 2012 by smashed1

[daemon]

but what i did notice was i had a very lot of truble concentrating riteing reading an watching tv

 

You sure that's not just your normal behavior?

[bluntman_77]

no major detrimental health effects have been noted for synthetic cannabanoids as yet . From the TGA report this year :

 

Some users of herbal smoking blends containing synthetic cannabinoids had reported similar effects to cannabis such as relaxation and sedation. Commonly reported effects included paranoia, anxiety, racing thoughts and irritability. Other effects included hallucinations, tremors, seizures, drowsiness, slurred speech, dilated pupils, elevated blood pressure, vomiting and chest pain. There were also reports of the use of synthetic cannabinoids precipitating the redevelopment of psychosis in patients with a history of mental illness (similar rates to those associated with cannabis use).

 

The smoking of any substance is likely to have an adverse effect on health and, like the smoking of tobacco and cannabis, herbal smoking blends may put users at risk of developing pulmonary conditions such as chronic bronchitis and lung cancer. Another potential concern with these substances was the possibility of serotonin syndrome. The indole moiety in certain compounds in the JWH series results in a similar structure to serotonin and may increase serotonin receptor activation. (The delegate noted that the overall structure of the scheduled synthetic cannabinoids was sufficiently different so as not to inadvertently capture serotonin as a derivative).

 

Usual stuff here , it might make you crazy , some people had a bad reaction and smoking things is bad . Pretty much from the war on drugs propaganda playbook .

 

and then even the TGA had to admit

 

 

Claims had also been made in the media that herbal smoking mixtures allegedly containing synthetic cannabinoids were responsible for at least three deaths in the US. However, one of these deaths was subsequently shown to be the result of a ‘mixed drug intoxication’ and there was no coronial information available on the role of these products in the other two deaths

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· There was no scientific literature describing the long-term effects of either the synthetic cannabinoids themselves or the effects of smoking the herbal blends. The relatively short period of use within populations (probably since 2008) was insufficient to examine longer-term effects such as onset of mental illness and associations with cancer.

 

So the only 3 deaths associated with it were lies and despite the TGA claiming to have links to mental illness there is actually no scientific evidence backing that up at all .

 

Basically its gets you high , your not allowed to get high. Its got nothing to do with health or well being .

[bluntman_77]

http://www.tga.gov.au/pdf/scheduling/scheduling-decisions-1202-final.pdf

 

here is the TGA decision if your interested

[Stix87]

some guy in perth last year had a heart attack and died because he was smoking kronic i say stick to the real stuff and ya cant go wrong

[bluntman_77]

no the media reported it was because of chronic , but there was no proof nor any investigation done .

 

theres a difference between a guy smoking chronic had a heart attack and chronic caused his heart attack . Just like all those study s that say schizophrenic smoked pot = pot causes schizophrenia . Establishing a relationship does not prove causality. It just as much proves schizophrenics like to smoke pot to medicate their schizophrenia.

Edited April 16, 2012 by bluntman_77

[Stix87]

actully when they reported it on the news they said a bloke died from smoking chronic they also said he had heart problems thats why on the packet they say people with heart problems shouldnt smoke it. and i dont care what differences there is mate simple fact kronic killed him in other words chronic caused his death coz it is man made shit Edited April 16, 2012 by Stix87