The Mex Cartel weed is plenty strong enough to cause you lots of problems thinking straight. Some custom growers ‘spike’ their stuff to make it stronger. I have been told they’ll use anything including ketamine, coke and acid to do this. Does anyone have practical experience out there?
Well for sure I don’t.
But I was in a hotel lobby in San Francisco last week when a middle-aged man came running into the area where a large number of us were gathered for drinks. I was looking down at my phone and didn’t see him as he ran full speed into the edge of the high-back chair in which I was sitting. He hit so hard it turned my chair around. Then he got up and ran to another corner of the room, and sat in a chair. Immediately he began fiddling with something next to the chair, behaving very strangely. Everyone was watching. Someone summoned a security guard and when he approached the man he leaped up, grabbing a cushion from a couch at the same time. He used the cushion to wipe his brow of sweat as he paced around the room. Finally he ran out of the hotel. The whole thing was very strange, and I’m sure we were all wondering if he was going to get violent.
I’ve heard of a drug called “spice” that induces psychotic episodes in some users — a synthetic marijuana. And right now it’s supposedly quite popular.
I also think there are probably many, many more incidents of crazed drug users that are going unreported.
Another effect of the War On Drugs - note that purveyors of the legal drug alcohol don't spike their product.