Synthetic Cannabis causing Serious Health Problems in English Prisons

Guardian ^ | 5/15/14 | Eric Allison

[mgist]

We have this in the US too. It's coming in from China. There is no way to detect this drug is drug testing, so you can see how it could be appealing to kids. Despite hundreds of deaths in the US, the CDC and every other Federal agency is Mum.

120 kids died in Texas alone. Kids have died all over the country, and emergency room have been filled with these cases.

For some strange reason the Fed who can record conversations of law abiding citizens around the globe, has no idea how many are dying in the drug epidemic.

[Gen.Blather]

This is the first I’ve heard of this. (I don’t get out much.) What do the users die from? What is the mechanism?

[RegulatorCountry]

Irregular heartbeat, complete loss of motor control, extreme psychotic episodes, self-mutilation such as cutting.

I’m wondering if that rapper in California, who castrated himself and then jumped off a balcony had smoked this.

I can’t envision the appeal, myself. What is compelling about such an experience? I only see negatives. One street name for the drug, “Clockwork Orange,” tells me a lot. They know where it will take them and do it anyway. Why?

[Wolfie]

The Bathtub Gin o our time. It’s a shame, since the real thing is fairly benign. But those are the wages of Prohibition.

[mgist]

http://dailycurrant.com/2014/01/02/marijuana-overdoses-kill-37-in-colorado-on-first-day-of-legalization/

“We are seeing cardiac arrests, hypospadias, acquired trimethylaminuria and multiple organ failures. By next week the death toll could go as high as 200, maybe 300. Someone needs to step in and stop this madness. My god, why did we legalize marijuana? What were we thinking?”

[samtheman]

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

[ronnie raygun]

For some strange reason the Fed who can record conversations of law abiding citizens around the globe, has no idea how many are dying in the drug epidemic.

The same way they turn a blind eye to the cartels selling low cost herion on our streets

[Gen.Blather]

“They know where it will take them and do it anyway. Why?”

That, I think I can answer. Drugs and alcohol are used to hide our awareness of our pain. The fact that the hiding mechanism is as bad as or worse than the pain is of no matter. The pain they know.

[mgist]

i just realized The Daily Currant above is satirical. The deaths are true however, and that just shows how they try to confuse the issues.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/21/when-synthetic-pot-kills.html

There have absolutely been confirmed deaths accross the country. The FEDS are trying very hard to cover up drug deaths.

[Mycroft Holmes]

“We are seeing cardiac arrests, hypospadias, acquired trimethylaminuria and multiple organ failures. By next week the death toll could go as high as 200, maybe 300. Someone needs to step in and stop this madness. My god, why did we legalize marijuana? What were we thinking?”

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You quote a satirical site as if it were authoritative. There are some clues...

hypospadias - A congenital condition in males in which the opening of the urethra is on the underside of the penis.

Trimethylaminuria, also known as fish odor syndrome or fish malodor syndrome, is a rare metabolic disorder that causes a defect in the normal production of the enzyme flavin containing monooxygenase 3.

Not to mention the Jessie Pinkman reference and the comments section. You slit the throat of your dead equine with dreck like this.

Fight the Free Sh☭t Nation

[Wolfie]

Cite the deaths from natural cannabis overdoses.

[Gen.Blather]

“For some strange reason the Fed who can record conversations of law abiding citizens around the globe, has no idea how many are dying in the drug epidemic.”

Hoover never even acknowledged that the Mafia existed. He only wanted cases he could “solve.” I had an employee who never got to the bottom of his work pile. On talking to him I realized that he viewed the backlog, which was costing us millions, as his job security. So, it was never going away. The more resources he got the more time he wasted. I suspect that the government is exactly the same.

The government agents need not fear, though. It is a basic law of economics that if there is a demand for something there will be a supply. Cocaine is cheaper in real terms today than it was when the cartels held a monopoly. By breaking up the cartels the feds essentially privatized the smuggling industry. Before if somebody, even a bit player, smuggled cocaine the cartels killed them. Thus we were limited to only the maximum amount of cocaine a cartel could move. But with no cartels and people moving as little as an ounce the smuggling bandwidth became unlimited.

[mgist]

They don’t know. We are under a very FALSE sense of security that the FDA is regulating Rx drugs that destroy lives. There is a BILLION $ campaign to legalize drugs, while touting all their benefits, while reality and the devastation it brings are being hidden.

There is a reason people don’t really know what’s going on. We are a narco nation, where the cartels are running the show, and our government is complicit. Adults have no idea, and kids much less so.

“Spice’ Or Synthetic Marijuana Linked To Psychosis, Brain, and Kidney Damage”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2013/06/29/spice-or-synthetic-marijuana-may-cause-psychosis-brain-and-kidney-damage/

Since I reported last summer about the dangers of K2/Spice, or synthetic marijuana, the news has gotten a lot worse.

“I had a normal child on a Thursday and a not normal child on a Friday,” says Smith, who will tell her story to Anderson Cooper on an upcoming episode of CNN’s Anderson360. “My son came home from school, smoked K2, and took a loaded gun into the woods.”

[Pearls Before Swine]

Once you have unknown synthetics, you greatly increase the risk of a particular drug family. Opium smoking is one level of indulgence; morphine another, and heroin yet another. But now, there are fentanyls, and there was a bad batch of a fentanyl-like substance some years ago which caused instant and permanent Parkinsonism.

Why should the situation be different for drugs targeting the same receptors that marijuana does? It’s one thing to have strong pot; quite another to experiment with unknown synthetics which may activate the same neural receptors, but may also have unknown side effects.

[rawcatslyentist]

Prohibitions step child!

This man made substance is an abomination! Straight from satan himself! This is the zombie maker!

When the persecution of cannabis users ceases, so will this illegally created market for hell slime such as this!

[Wolfie]

And he (Clemson researcher John W. Huffman) did it with a Federal grant. I suspect they were looking for something to head off the medical marijuana movement.

[davetex]

http://www.livescience.com/6149-fake-weed-real-drug-k2-causing-hallucinations-teens.html

There have been several reports of OD’s around here lately.
They call it K2 in the news reports.

[mgist]

I followed up with another post when I realized it. The fact is kids are dying from this pot that can't be detected, has no smell, and the cause of death is basically only known from survivors who witnessed them smoking.

Synthetic Marijuana 'Spice' Linked to Stroke Dan Rankin January 21, 2014 Synthetic Cannabis Triggers 'Spiceophrenia' Synthetic Marijuana Linked to Acute Kidney Injury Ischemic stroke may be added to the list of health risks already associated with the recreational street drug spice, a team of neurologists from the University of South Florida (USF), in Tampa, suggests. In a new report, the authors discuss the cases of 2 young and previously healthy siblings aged 26 and 19 years who experienced acute ischemic stroke shortly after smoking the Schedule I synthetic marijuana known as spice. Imaging results suggested the strokes may have been embolic. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/819484

[mgist]

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/819484

[Mycroft Holmes]

You continue to conflate marijuana with synthetic compounds that more resemble ecstasy in effects and chemistry. This is shoddy scholarship.

Twice I have chased your references to find that they did not state what you had claimed. You are a poor and shallow researcher and I am no longer interested in your typing.