While we wait for Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to sign a ban on K2 synthetic marijuana, some of you might be stockpiling the faux reefer.
At least that's what's been hinted at by various commenters on this site. And I've seen brisk sales at metro stores still carrying the stuff.
Now, I'm not going to name any names, and I'm certainly not going to tell you to stop buying. But buyer beware. Know your dealer.
For a while, I wasn't concerned about where you bought your K2. It seemed like every place in the metro -- on the Kansas and the Missouri side -- was getting its supply from Jon Sloan, who everyone agreed was a trustworthy businessman.
Sloan even pleaded with lawmakers not to ban K2 during the first legislative meeting in Topeka. He would've saved himself a lot of trouble by keeping his mouth shut.
Earlier this year, Sloan's shop was raided, and he's still facing drug charges for things like selling a cactus that you can buy in the Wal-Mart garden center. (Seriously. Read "Fake Reefer Madness.") So without Sloan around to work with distribution, it's become more and more unclear exactly who's getting what from where.
"I had four of five distributors talk to me about this stuff, but I didn't trust them. I dealt with Jon because I trusted Jon," says one local businessman who sells K2. (I'm keeping the names out of this story because I don't want to endorse one business over another, and because the details of current K2 distribution are still sketchy.).
This businessman has since found a distributor that he trusts and has continued to sell K2. Others we talked to, however, said some worrisome things.
"If I can't buy it, I'm just going to start making it myself," a different business owner told us. "You can find the recipe all over the internet."
That business owner is right. Google JWH-073 and JWH-018 -- the synthetic cannabinoids that make K2 potent -- and you'll find instructions on how to make them yourself. It's also easy to find the chemical ingredients. But even if the formula were as easy and rewarding as adding chocolate to milk, I don't know anyone selling this stuff in the metro who has a degree in chemistry. I also don't know their standards of cleanliness. For all you know, the less scrupulous ones are making it in their toilets like prison wine.
Some of the people selling this stuff seem as concerned about the safety of their product as any ethical dealer should be, and likely are getting it from decent sources. But if you're still getting bags, ask your favorite K2 shop if they're mixing it in their basement.
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I've done loads of research on the chemical JWH-018. There are many benefits as well as disadvantages for this. If you would like more information, I'd suggest you take a look at www.legalganja.info for more info.
You read the article wrong, "Me".
"I guarantee that if you actually did find a recipe to make JWH, you didn't understand a single word in it. It"
They didn't mean the recipe for synthesis of JWH-018; they meant the recipe for creating smkoing blends like K2.
All they are is inactive carrier herbs like oregano, damiana, mint, nutmeg, etc. sprayed with a solution of JWH-018 and/or JWH-073 in isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol). JWH-018 and JWH-073 cost at least ONE HUNDRED TIMES less than pre-made K2/Spice/etc.
http://sciencemadness.org/talk...
There's a proposed synthesis right there.
I'm not saying it's right or good or that the shop owner's could pull it off correctly. I'm saying some are sleazy and dumb enough to think they can make it right as long as people keep buying it. But hey man, go to town. Give away your money and don't ask anything about what your smoking.
And yes I already wrote about the medicinal applications. Including interviewing JWH's creator, Dr. Huffman, who thinks anyone who smokes the stuff even when it's created under perfect lab conditions is taking a health risk. Well.. to be blunt he said, "Anyone who smokes it is an idiot."
Can we be friends now man?
I love you.
"Google JWH-073 and JWH-018 -- the synthetic cannabinoids that make K2 potent -- and you'll find instructions on how to make them yourself. It's also easy to find the chemical ingredients"
Look Pete, I understand that the average blogger and MSM writer spends very little time doing research, but this is just getting silly.
I guarantee that if you actually did find a recipe to make JWH, you didn't understand a single word in it. It's like saying "why spend money on a mother board? All you need to do is buy some silicone and wires and you can build one yourself!!!". It's not that simple, you gotta be a chemist with a lab to make this stuff. This stuff is made under controlled conditions in LABORATORIES, it's not made by some crack head in his basement.
If you spent a little more time researching (more than 7 seconds), you would find that JWH actually has medicinal applications, and one of these synthetic cannabinoids actually PROMOTES BRAIN CELL GROWTH, unlike alcohol and cigarettes which destroys brain cells. But of course there's no mention of that in this article, because it doesn't involve putting fear into the heads of parents over a non-issue.
You make me sick.
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