Sketchy chemicals. You can end up in the hospital using this shit - seriously.

Which explains the ongoing effort to make it unavailable.

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I would much rather have people smoking a plant that has been in use for thousands of years without a single fatality than smoking a substance which we really don't know much about and is likely far more dangerous than the real thing.

It's that it doesn't yet show up in drug tests ... or at least most tests. If pot is legalized, that doesn't guarantee your place of work won't test for it - as is the case in some areas where it's legal now. I have a few friends who smoke spice and it's illegal to buy here, but they smoke it because it doesn't show up on their piss tests yet. It isn't because they have a more difficult time buying the real stuff (in fact, it's probably easier finding a dealer who sells the real stuff) ... but that they don't want to risk their jobs smoking the real pot. Once spice is easily detected on all forms of drug tests, it will die out because that's really the only reason it survives in many of these areas (and yes, it helps it's legal in some places ... but that's changing).

Since most drugs clear your system in a day or two, but pot can stay for weeks, employment drug testing is primarily aimed at pot smokers. Now, workers who want to keep their jobs resort to worse--but undetectable--drugs.

I wonder what workers could ever do to get out from under employment drug testing. Maybe they could all get together and form a group to represent them for their mutual benefit and confront the bosses to get rid of it....Nah.

Ask for it by name from your local dealer!

"Synthetic" suggests a man-made version of the natural drug. These are different drugs, whose effects are mostly poorly known.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=38305

paralyzed by a reaction to some MJ substitute or other. Obviously that's just one freak case, but I've never heard of anything like that happening to a weed smoker. Just saying.

........Does it give you the munchies?