Fake weed is a helluva non-drug
Two teens hospitalized after puffing on that pseudo-green
Two Roswell teens were hospitalized Sunday for smoking that fake-ass bud, the AJC reports.
Synthetic pot, known on the street as K2 or Spice, was what put the teens in the hospital, Roswell Police Lieutenant James McGee said.
The hospital called the Roswell police, who sent an officer to investigate, McGee said. Officials ran the usual tests for methamphetamines, marijuana and cocaine, and all came up “negative,” McGee said.
“We were trying to figure out what they were on,” he said.
“After questioning them, they said they were smoking Spice, and at the time, our officers didn’t have a clue as to what Spice was.”
The product, which is sold in smoke shops, is marketed as incense. But some crafty folks smoke it in an attempt to get high. Tuesday’s WSB-TV report titled “Powerful ‘fake pot’ sold in Georgia” probably helped boost sales 4,000 percent. State lawmakers will try to ban this menace, as they did marijuana-flavored lollipops, in 5...4...3...
Full disclosure: Your humble correspondent, who at one time lived in Cobb County where you’d eat sand just to escape the drudgery, once tried this product. It gave him a headache.