A Closer Look Into The World Of Rcs nursing Essay

A Closer Look Into The World Of Rcs Health Essay

The government is oppressing the people’s rights by declaring a federal state of emergency, through the Drug Enforcement Agency, on making five Research chemicals illegal. They are jwh-018, jwh-73, jwh-0200, cp-47, and cp-497 (Morgan). Now you may be asking yourself…Why should I care? Whether you may know it or not, there is an underground legal drug market, which is rapidly growing and becoming public controversy. The world of research chemicals are becoming the recreational drugs of the future.

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All five chemicals are and have been being used in the manufacturing of an incense product known as K2 or Spice. The incense is sold in corner stores and smoke shops across the United States to anyone over the age of 18 and it costs approximately $10-15 a gram.

Although not legally allowed to be sold for human consumption, these incenses are smoked by the users to experience a euphoric high similar to the affects of THC, chemically known as delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or the main chemical present in marijuana. Synthetic cannabis as it’s also called, usually consists of a variety of different herbs, sprayed with the synthetic cannabinoids.

These plants when smoked by themselves have their own psychoactive properties. Leonotis leonurus (Wild Dagga), Pedicularis densiflora (Indian Warrior), Turnera diffusa (Damiana), and many other plants have been use to make these “smoking mixtures” (Cary).

Dr. John W. Huffman was the organic chemist at Clemson University who first synthesized the metabolites of THC and discovered a wide array of chemicals in the synthetic cannabinoids family (Fay). Over a twenty year time span, Huffman discovered a wide array of cannabinoid chemicals. His research was funded by the National Institution on Drug Abuse.

 In January of 2009 a group of German chemists at the University of Freiburg publicly announced that many of the k2/spices were infused with synthetic cannabinoids, specifically jwh-018 and jwh-073 (Fuller).Â

During the past year, around 2000 people have contacted poison control centers, after smoking some herbal incense product; complaining of symptoms such as irregular/rapid heartbeat, disorientation, and nausea. Although these side effects may seem dangerous, nobody has died exclusively from smoking too much (Mor………………………….

A Closer Look Into The World Of Rcs

A Closer Look Into The World Of Rcs

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