Kansas lawmaker reveals why K2 synthetic marijuana must be feared
We told you Friday that Kansas state Rep. Robert Olson would announce a bill to criminalize K2 synthetic weed on Monday. Today, Olson, a Republican and the Majority Whip, revealed why he believes K2 is dangerous … and his reasons aren’t surprising.
There’s the usual stuff about high school students and gateway drugs and operating heavy machinery and all that shit you can apply to booze, but there’s also a claim that K2 is some form of master-weed. According to Johnson County forensic scientist Jeremy Morris, who Olson quotes in his press release: “The effects of THC happen when the chemical binds with receptors in the user’s brain, like a key fitting into a lock. (K2’s active chemicals) are better keys then THC, and therefore, it takes less of them to get you high — and that high will last longer. K2 takes all of the negative effects of THC and heightens them.”
Here we must take issue. The Pitch conducted human trials, and our testers agreed on one thing — a K2 high is extremely truncated compared to a real marijuana.
It’s not shocking or outrageous that Olson is moving to ban the stuff, but it does seem like a lot of cynical legislative fuss considering that — when you look at what’s happening nationally — even if this bill goes through there’s a good chance you’ll be able to get legal weed soon anyway.
Read Olson’s bill after the jump.
