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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho would start a SYNTHETIC marijuana ring?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/02/us-usa-florida-breakingbad-idUSBREA010X720140102I can understand starting a ganja ring, or a meth ring, or a heroin ring...but why risk prison making something anyone can buy over the Internet?
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Who would start a SYNTHETIC marijuana ring? (Original Post)
jmowreader
Jan 2014
OP
If it's synthetic... you can patent it. Natural plants and compounds can't be patented.
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2014
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TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)1. If it's synthetic... you can patent it. Natural plants and compounds can't be patented.
That's one reason why drug companies push synthetic drugs and dislike natural variants.
They cannot monopolize the market on it.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)4. This isn't a pharmaceutical operation, BlackAdder
Unlike natural marijuana that has a lot of healing properties, synthetic marijuana is only good for getting high on.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)5. Perhaps the synthetic version is not detectable using dogs or machines.
It may also leave the body faster, to invalidate drug testing.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)2. "Synthetic" marijuana is bullshit.
Basically they're just calling some random psychoactive chemicals- usually harmful- "marijuana". As if anything that gets anyone fucked up in any fashion, is "marijuana".
It's clever from a drug warrior perspective, though, because then whatever awful health effects this crap causes can be linked to the word "marijuana", regardless of whether there is any actual chemical or physical relationship.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)3. I thought they stopped making Spice 2 years ago.
It said more than 700 pounds (315 kg) of 79,000 individually packaged packets of synthetic marijuana were seized with an estimated street value of $1.25 million.