Community | August 12, 2009 | 10 comments

UK may ban designer ’synthetic cannabis’

source: http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/12/designer-synthetic-cannabinoid-drug-may-be-banned-in-uk/

Image
bansheewail
A legal blend of herbs sold as incense under the name “Spice” may soon be illegal in the United Kingdom, as it reportedly contains a designer variety of synthetic cannabinoids which creates an effect some users say is similar to a marijuana high.

The former head of the UK Forensic Science Service’s drugs intelligence unit, Les King, told a conference yesterday that just months ago, “it was found that a smoking mixture known as Spice was not the innocuous material it purported to be. The claimed constituents, namely various herbs, were a Trojan horse,” reported The Guardian.

The so-called Trojan horse — a blend of baybean, blue lotus, dwarf skullcap, Indian warrior, lions tail, maconha brava, marshmallow, pink lotus, red clover, rose, Siberian motherwort, vanilla and honey — actually delivers a dose of JWH-018, a synthetic cannabinoid with a stronger psychoactive effect than THC, the active compound in marijuana.
  1. groups:
    Community,   World Politics,   Make Marijuana Matter More
  2. tags:
    News,  News and Politics,  Politics,  UK,  5 more
  3.     
    |

10 comments // UK may ban designer ’synthetic cannabis’

more from Community:
from the community

top videos