Friday 20 October 2023

Legal Highs, Research Chemicals and Spice

 Sat here now in 2023 it seems virtually impossible to imagine that less than a decades ago there were shops on normal high streets throughout the country legally selling drugs over the counter, the equal of and in many cases more powerful than the recreational drugs people buy illegally today. Spice is now the umbrella term for synthetic cannabis compounds; probably the cheapest and most dangerous 'street' drug available. It is popular in some urban homeless communities and in prison as the chemical can be sprayed onto any herb or even sheets of paper upon which letters can be written and enter prison undetected. Despite being chemicals that act on cannabis receptors in the brain the drug is nothing like what your everyday weed and hash smoker would recognise. Vastly more powerful, able to render the user pretty much a zombie to the outside observer. Having never tried what  would now be recognised as Spice or Mamba as it often referred to in the West Midlands I am unqualified to describe the feelings and sensations the user experiences though I am informed that you lose touch with external reality and feel little from any cold or sharp corners. This is clearly why the homeless or imprisoned are attracted to it along with its cheap price. Back when the Research Chemical era was at its height I did once receive a small freeby from an internet supplier I was using at the time. I didnt 

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