Stop Spice! Synthetic Cannabis Is Extremely Harmful

Not long ago I wrote about the dangers of spice, fake weed that’s also known as K2 or Potpourri. At the time of writing, I was reading many stories of people who smoked it and got really sick or had a really bad trip.

I wanted to bring the subject up again because I have personally witnessed the harm this substance can do.

Here’s the story:

I smoked the stuff a few times but decided to stay away because it was so sketchy. But my friend started smoking it regularly. I couldn’t blame him. After all, I was smoking weed and getting high, so I couldn’t really call him out or give him shit for using it. I was always willing to smoke him out, but sometimes it seemed he preferred spice over weed, something which I had a hard time understanding. But I just ignored it because it was easier than having to deal with it. Still, here and there in conversation I expressed my dislike for spice in the hope that it would inspire change.  But as time went on things began to change for the worse.

Whenever we would hang out I could tell if he had smoked or not and it made things awkward because sometimes it seemed like he would try to hide it. If I asked him about it he would not lie, but problems were beginning to build beneath the surface. However, things didn’t seem that bad, and as time went on we began gearing up for a trip to visit our home town, Reno. It was during this trip the truth about spice was made brutally clear to me.

My friend obviously wasn’t able to bring any spice with him on the plane. I thought nothing of it until the second day. We were driving around visiting our old hang-out spots but my friend was acting strange. It was obvious that something was very wrong. While driving near Willow Creek park, he asked me to pull over and told me that he had been smoking spice again. I already knew and just thought he was wanting to smoke really bad, but it turned out to be much worse.

He was having some pretty serious withdrawal symptoms. He couldn’t eat at all, at times he was retching violently, and he could not stop shaking. This was a result of going without spice for just a day and a half.

When I found out what was really going on, I was scared. Honestly, I don’t think I have ever been so scared in my life. I had never dealt with someone who was going through a really bad withdrawal, and it freaked me out. He was so sick I thought I was going to have to take him to the hospital. Since we were on vacation, we were out of our “home base” comfort zone and I didn’t know what to do. I felt alone. We also had three more days before our flight home.

During the next few days it got worse. Thankfully we were able to connect with one of my old buddies who hooked us up with some marijuana. Smoking weed helped but he still could not eat, and each morning he would get terribly ill. If we hadn’t been able to get some marijuana I don’t know what we would’ve done. After three days he had eaten barely a meal and I was worried he would pass out or something from the strain and lack of nutrition.

Eventually we got him home and since then he is done smoking spice. When he did finally quit, he was going through withdrawals for almost two weeks. I’m really glad, but I will never forget that day at Willow Creek park. I will never forget him laying in the grass shaking and suffering. It was really hard for me to see him in such a state because he is actually much more than just a friend, he is my brother.

Him and I are really close and there is no one more dear to me in the entire world. And there he was, reduced, diminished, and sickened by the spice. And there I was, scared, feeling the weight of my choice since it was I who introduced him to spice, the weight of the realization that I was partly responsible for what had happened.

This is why I wanted to share this story. I hope that it will help sink in how dangerous and fucked up this stuff is. I don’t want anyone else to go through what my brother did.

If you ever hear of someone who has smoked or is about to smoke spice, stop them! If you must, knock it out of their hands and smash it into the ground! I absolutely cannot believe how some states allow this to be sold but not cannabis. If you want to get high, or just feel better, opt for the natural choice. Spice, K2, and all that shit is toxic. Please spread the word so we can inform and empower others to make better choices.