It’s legal and readily available at local convenience stores, gas stations and head shops.
Even kids can buy it, and it’s also virtually undetectable by the average employment drug-screen test.
K2 incense, which comes in a variety of aromas called “flavors,” would be labeled a felony — because people are smoking it, and they are getting high.
sort of like an herbal blend meant to mimic marijuana;
“It turns out it’s a mixture of herbs, sprayed or laced with a substance that is like THC but may not be chemically the same. We call them synthetic cannabinoids.”
The manmade or synthetic marijuana does not contain THC or tetrahydrocannabinol, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, according to the website for the National Institute on Drug Abuse;
Instead, K2 is an unidentified plant that is dried, crumbled and sprayed with the chemical JWH-018, which Goetz said “has at least four times the potency of THC.” The chemical is named for Dr. John W. Huffman, a Clemson University professor credited with creating it for his research on the effects of cannabinoids on the human brain.
