Fake Weed- K2

If underage drinking and rising prescription drug abuse wasn't enough to worry about, now parents now have another substance to be on the look out for - one that is completely legal, unregulated and available almost anywhere. It's an herbal product called "K2" better known by teens as "fake weed."K2 is a mixture od natural herbs, produces a high similar to marijuana and it is reportedly "natural." Teens therefore believe the fake weed is safe.
Dr. Anthony Scalzo, professor of toxicology at Saint Louis University and director of the Missouri Regional Poison Control Center, has recently reported 30 cases in which teens were reporting symptoms after smoking K2. These symptoms included:

• Hallucinations
  
• Severe Agitation
  
• Vomiting
  
• Elevated heart rate
  
• Elevated blood pressure
  
• Tremors and seizures

Scalzo said the plant mixture is sprayed with a psychotropic drug known as JWH 018, which is certainly not "natural. "But Scalzo also thinks K2 is also contaminated with a unknown toxic substance that causes many of the symptoms that he has seen in teens.
What to think about this, it does not surprise me that since marijuana is not legal people would buy things that are similar to the drug. I think companies should investigate the products they are producing to market. Parents should be aware of K2 and products similar to this. Personally marijuana should be legal, if it was this would not be a problem.

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