Banned!
Posted on 01/18/2010 7:20:27 AM PST by Saije
Customers trying to buy the herbal mixture K2 left the local store Sacred Journey empty-handed Friday morning.
The store, 1103 Mass., was out of stock; demand for K2 has risen after Kansas legislators announced they would work to ban the substance. Some law enforcement officials have compared K2 to marijuana.
“At first it was just word of mouth, but a lot of news agencies picked up on it and within a month ... just a lot of business,” said Sacred Journey employee Matthew Rader. “It was not uncommon for (the line) just snaking around the store.”
Rader is among those speaking out against moves to ban K2 and similar products.
A Senate committee on Wednesday recommended approval of a bill that would make the chemical found in K2 illegal. The House has a similar bill, with a hearing on the issue Tuesday.
Legislative changes have been prompted by law enforcement, including Douglas County Sheriff Ken McGovern, who spoke at Wednesday’s committee hearing. Those opposed to the substance have said it may pose health risks as the active chemical in K2 is a synthetic version of marijuana, although the substance doesn’t show up on drug tests.
Depending on the variety, K2 costs between $15 and $30 for a three-gram bag. While Sacred Journey was out of K2, store employees were offering customers a different product they say is similar to the popular brand. Employees at the store said they only sell K2 and similar “ethnobotanical” products to people age 18 and older.
Despite the characterizations of K2 as harmful, Rader said employees at the store haven’t heard of any ill effects.
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I’ve never heard of this, either.
How can there be a form of marijuana that can’t be detected in drug tests out today? If the key component is bred out of it, how does it still have an effect for people?
Let's deal with it in a personal responsibility way. All is now legal, but cause any harm while under the influence and it's a mandatory 10 year sentence, cause a death and you get life. Any ill health effects, the death panel assigns you to the blue pill and that's it, no further care. All law suits banned, the risks are totally yours. Drink the snake oil, kiss the snake.
K2 is really oregano.
The placebo effect is strong.
Is this one of those things like, back in the sixties, when word went out that smoking dried banana peels could get you high, and you couldn’t buy a banana within fifty miles of Berserkley?
Banned!
There is not marijuana or THC in the product.
It is sold as a air freshener. The rumor is that there is a synthetic THC compound that will get you high but not produce standard THC metabolites in the product.
It's not a form of MJ, it contains a synthetic version of the active component of MJ, Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)I don't know, but perhaps the tests actually detect one of the other components of MJ rather than the THC directly. Or the synthetic THC is not detected but the natural version is?
Yes, many Tylenol, and other McNeil products, have been recalled. A bad smell caused by a breakdown product of a chemical that is sometimes applied to wood that is used to build wood pallets that transport and store product packaging materials.
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but not produce standard THC metobilites in the urine.
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