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 auronlives69
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 jwh banned 
#500673 - 11/24/10 07:19 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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better stock up everybody
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20101124/k2-spice-legal-highs-illegal
‘Legal Highs’ K2 and Spice Will Be Banned
Drug Enforcement Administration Has Declared the Drugs Illegal; Action Takes Effect in 30 Days
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD
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Nov. 24, 2010 -- Legal highs soon will be illegal across the U.S., the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said today.
The DEA is using its emergency powers to make K2, Spice, and other "legal high" herbal products Schedule I controlled substances -- that is, illegal drugs with no permitted medical use. The declaration will take effect after a mandatory 30-day waiting period, and will have the effect of law for at least a year.
Some 15 states already have banned some or all "legal high" products. When the waiting period expires, sale or possession of the substances will be a federal crime.
"When the final rule is published, it gives us the authority to do the same investigations as for any other controlled substance," DEA spokeswoman Barbara Carreno tells WebMD.
Specifically, the soon-to-be banned drugs are five designer drugs that mimic the effects of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. The drugs are JWH-018, JWH-073, JWHY-200, CP-47,497, and cannabicyclohexanol.
"Legal high" products claim to be mixtures of herbs that can be smoked for a psychedelic effect. But the herbs listed on the package label often are missing from the actual product. Instead, the product contains a leafy mixture that is spiked with a designer drug -- usually one of the five drugs listed by the DEA.
The same product often is spiked with different doses of different drugs, making it impossible for users to know what they are taking.
Like THC, the active ingredient in marijuana and other forms of cannabis, these synthetic cannabinoids turn on the cannabinoid receptors (switches that trigger activity) found on many cells in the body. The brain is particularly rich in the CB1 cannabinoid receptor.
But most synthetic cannabinoids are quite different chemical structures from THC. And unlike cannabis, which has been used by humans for millennia, the new drugs have never been tested in humans.
JWH-018 was first made for experimental purposes in 1995 in the lab of Clemson University researcher John W. Huffman, PhD.
"Nobody knows anything about how these new compounds act in the human body. Anecdotal reports say they stick around in the body for quite a long time," Huffman told WebMD earlier this year.
The DEA says the American Association of Poison Control Centers has received more than 1,500 calls relating to products spiked with these designer cannabinoids. The calls came from 48 states and the District of Columbia.
The drugs appear to come from foreign sources. The DEA says that U.S. Customs in 2010 has intercepted multiple shipments of two of the drugs, including one shipment of over 50 kilograms.
For more information on K2, Spice, and other "legal highs," see WebMD's FAQ.
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The_Philosophy
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Wow this is some news.
I've never tried these synthetic cannabinoids but this will basically prevent anymore research being done, and I wonder if any new ones are made if they'll be grandfathered into this bill.
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 Dr. Siekadellyk
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I wonder what other "Legal highs" their talking about?
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Shaggy420
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 i think all this shit was banned over here, but i still see it in the head shops 
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auronlives69
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Re: jwh banned [Re: Shaggy420]
#501159 - 11/27/10 11:04 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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a statewide ban is one thing but when the whole country bands somthing you can be shure it will go underground at an inflated price
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kungpow
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Shit the price of that shit was already inflated. I would hate to see how bad it gets now.
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auronlives69
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Re: jwh banned [Re: kungpow]
#501370 - 11/28/10 06:36 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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for a hundered bucks you can make a pound of jhw-18 laced herb cheaper than mj not quite as good but cheaper alternative none the less
it still sucks that there banning everything thats different from mainstream 4loko/djarum cloves/research chem/
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kungpow
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yeah it is a sad day when any substance is banned.
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Lacombe Grown
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Re: jwh banned [Re: kungpow]
#501504 - 11/28/10 05:23 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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got some pinapple express ko and let me tell you its no joke, ill smoke one to this, seems like the government is always trying to fuck somethin. but in louisiana the chem is already banned, and they just came out with another chem that gets the job done. so where there's a stoner with a will, theres a way.
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