I really hope weed is made legal everywhere, it's fucked up that you risk running into stuff like this if you smoke.
But if you do drugs, make sure it's the real stuff and not this synthetic shit.
Someone should come up with a chemical to test weed like this, drop it on the stuff and it changes color or whatever.
The article says 46 people now, holy shit.
I expected this to be in Bridgeport (one of the more sketchier cities here in CT) but huh, New Haven. What a weird situation.
or maybe don't buy it at all unless you can make sure you're not feeding a criminal network
New Haven why am I not surprised.... I work in New Haven what a god forsaken shithole.
76 now.
That's terrifying.
Didn't synthetic weed just get legalized?
Great stuff.
I'm glad the real stuff is semi-legal here.
Whilst I agree that synthetic weed is bad, that's ordinarily because synthetic alternatives to marijuana are full agonists of cannabinoid receptors, whereas actual marijuana is a partial agonist. Partial agonists are ideal because it's basically impossible to overdose on drugs that work that way. Most drugs are full agonists, like MDMA (ecstasy) or cocaine, but please don't think something is bad simply due to being synthetic - MDMA is synthetic and is pretty damn safe if used responsibly.
And hail Satan.
Are you talking about this news article? The drug in question in that case is THC itself, not a synthetic cannabinoid.
https://apnews.com/55dc6f5a6a874ccfa3d9c1c9a4af1a24/Arrest-made-in-more-than-100-synthetic-pot-overdoses-in-park
A 53-year-old man has been arrested in connection with more than 100 synthetic-marijuana overdoses, many of them in the same New Haven park, after authorities say they caught him with 32 bags of the drug, police said Friday.
Some of the victims identified John Parker, of New Haven, as one of the people who was dealing K2 on the New Haven Green, where most of the overdoses occurred Wednesday and Thursday, Police Chief Anthony Campbell said. No deaths were reported, and officials said most people recovered quickly.
This is a pretty good case for wholesale decriminalization and legalization.
Except some people will just use this case to show how dangerous drugs including pot are. This isn't a case that would shift the opinion of the people who decide this, because if they're against soft drugs already, they will hardly see any difference. It's not like politicians care about scientific facts/research, at least here. Maybe that's why i'm skeptical about this.
Laws =/= morals, no ethical consumption under capitalism, etc.
If you can, always just make your own stuff guys. Grow your own poppies, pot, ect.
but for fuck's sake don't cook your own meth unless you're trained in organic synthesis and have the proper equipment
Just don't cook your own meth.. grow ephedra!
A bunch of friends selling weed can still be buying supplies from another friend and that tumbles on a long line all the way back to Columbia or Afghanistan.
Unless you can absolutely make sure its not going towards the cartels, paramilitaries or anywhere that isn't a friends bank account, its not defensible to try.
Its not the fact that its illegal, as you said law doesn't equal morals, its more so the fact who they're supporting
When people argue "if they made it legal you wouldn't have to fund the drug gangs", they're right but they don't seem to connect the dots that funding drug gangs for what is an unnecessary luxury is whats destroying countries like Columbia.
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