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Real pot versus fake pot—can you spot the difference? bk
Over the past couple of months, newspapers and TV stations across the United States have been running with horror stories about K2, spice, and others kinds of “synthetic marijuana.” A recent article in the New York Times, for example, described a few blocks in East Harlem where “joints” were selling for a dollar, users were either passing out or twitching uncontrollably, and cops and ambulances idled, waiting to pick up casualties for the emergency room.
The Times story sounded like a dispatch from a hellscape—nothing like a typical stoner scene such as Seattle’s Hempfest, where thousands of people gather each year to smoke marijuana, eat snacks, and chat about topics of mutual interest. Why do the effects of “synthetic marijuana” sound so radically different from those of actual marijuana?
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