“.. Lawmakers have a chance to learn from the failures of marijuana prohibition and respond to K2 with enlightened policy.
The recent emergence in the United States of “K2,” sometimes called synthetic marijuana, is testing lawmakers to see if they’ve been paying attention to the failures of marijuana prohibition and will respond to K2 with enlightened policy.
The first stories on K2, or “Spice,” broke out with headlines labeling the mixture of herbs and spices ..
.. which are treated with a synthetic compound, as “fake pot.”
K2 was virtually unknown until the media hyped up its presence at tobacco and novelty shops.
Under U.S. law, and in all 50 states, the herbal product is legal, and also unregulated.
People who have tried K2 often report psychoactive effects that are comparable to marijuana .. but notably less pleasurable..”
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