Legal Spice Views

General Goods

Spice does not cause a positive drug test for cannabis or other illegal drugs using GC-MS-screening with library search, multi-target screening by LC-MS/MS, or immunological screening procedures.[18][27] A study has been conducted into the detection of metabolites of JWH-018 in urine, the metabolites are mainly conjugates with glucuronic acid and can be reliably detected by GC–MS/MS and LC–MS/MS.[29]

Incense blends such as K2, Spice, Black Mamba, and Wildfire Extreme are sold legally in most states in the US but have been illegal in Europe for over a year. These herbacious products are sprayed with one or more compounds originally synthesized in the laboratory of Dr. John W. Huffman at Clemson University. The compounds carry his initials followed by a number, such as JWH-018. The chemical structure of the compounds are different from the active constituents in marijuana but they bind to the same receptors in the brain. In recent months, JWH compounds have become available on the internet in their pure form, allowing users to make their own products.

Why do people use Spice? For some kids, it is simply easier to get - on the internet, at gas stations - and, until recently, legal to do so. The products have also been popular among people on parole or anyone else subject to urinary drug screening. Depending on the drug screen, the JWH compounds may not be detected. However, the US military's drug screening method does detect them and these products have been banned from use by soldiers.

Denis, a chemical dependency counselor at Daybreak Youth Services, a Vancouver residential drug-treatment facility for teen boys, wondered if the store owner knows what she’s been learning recently: Spice and its chemical cousins may still be legal — but they can cause anxiety, paranoia, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, vomiting, seizures and other nasty health problems.