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Cannabis

Warren DeMontague

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5. My pointing that out is not intended as criticism. Nothing personal.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #4)

Thu May 14, 2015, 05:57 PM

May 2015

The media crap about "synthetic marijuana" pisses me off, because someone has some emergency room visit or goes nuts and attacks people and the media talks about "high on synthetic marijuana". It would be like if someone was selling turpentine and calling it "synthetic iced tea" and all these people were drinking it, going blind and dying... the public hears it and says "fuck, that iced tea is bad shit!".

It's a completely bogus label, and I'm not convinced it's not part of a deliberate move to make actual marijuana sound more dangerous than it is.

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Synthetic marijuana should be illegal. In_The_Wind May 2015 #1

Agreed. I've tried it, and tastes like crap. eloydude May 2015 #2

I'm not sure why "synthetic marijuana" threads are appropriate for the cannabis group. Warren DeMontague May 2015 #3

I'm not trying to conflate actual marijuana with the so-called "synthetic marijuana" TexasTowelie May 2015 #4

My pointing that out is not intended as criticism. Nothing personal. Warren DeMontague May 2015 #5

Thanks for the clarification. TexasTowelie May 2015 #6