Do you believe “fake pot” should be banned? If you don’t know your answer yet maybe after reading my blog you will come to the conclusion weather fake pot should be banned or not.
Throughout the years a variety of “fake pot” has been distributed to the store shelves and Tabaco stores. The types of synthetic pot are Primo, Killa Gorilla, Killa Skunk, Brain-Freeze which used to be known as K9 and Spice. What effects does this fake pot cause? The most common ones are vomiting, anxiety, hallucinations, seizures, high blood pressure and loss of consciousness.
The Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have said these fake substances have sent many people to the emergency rooms or the poison control centers. In this article it states how a teen nearly escapes death after using synthetic marijuana. They had to remove her breathing tube and stop all medication and nourishments so they could add morphine into her body. Family waited hours until the next day she was still alive and able to speak. These types of fake pot can take a big toll on the human body and nearly kill you if not taking to the hospital right away. There are several other articles about people who nearly survived after consuming so much fake marijuana. In the next paragraph I talk about a video and in that video there is an actual survivor talking about his experience he went through using fake pot and how he will never use it again and encourages others to not use it as well.
In Houston Texas, all “fake pot” was banned from all stores a year ago. A new “fake pot” has come out with the same substances in them as the old fake pot but the names have just changed. They are now being sold in stores in Houston Texas. Why is it? If they banned it a year ago why all of a sudden did they put it back on the shelves? In this video it states that since they came out with new synthetic pot they don’t have an exact clue as to what is bad in it because the compound names have changed. Many police officers came to testify for the bill but one officer said it’s tough to regulate it because they don’t know what is or isn’t on the banned substance list. Texas is one of 23 states who are trying to ban this synthetic substance but they say it will take the backing of the federal government.
In my opinion after reading a variety of articles about fake pot I am totally for banning the substance completely in every state possible all around the world. But the reason fake pot is going around so much is because it is legal compared to the real marijuana which is only legal in some places like Colorado. There has been no research as to anyone dying from using marijuana, that’s why I believe they should just legalize marijuana and get rid of the fake pot. Fake pot has a bigger and greater effect of killing you than does the real marijuana. In this article it states 10 Facts about marijuana that I found very interesting. It talks about how it doesn’t cause cancer and states numbers as to how many people die per year when using tabaco, alcohol, drug overdose (prescription), drug overdose (illegal), and marijuana. The Law should state that anyone over the age of 21 can consume marijuana but not go into any school related, church related, or work related function high. They should make some type of boundaries when legalizing marijuana and I feel some people would respect it. It then would remove all the fake pot from all the shelves all over the world. Yes legalizing real pot is a controversial topic and can go either way but if it takes helping out children between the ages 12-25 from going to the hospital and nearly escaping death because of consuming fake pot then the government should take a closer look into it. How do you all feel about banning fake pot by legalizing real pot?
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