Category: K2 Incense News Archive June

A variety of proposals which had failed to pass both the House and the Senate in the same form were tacked onto the huge bill House Republicans approved Wednesday. For the third time this year, the House voted to ban the use, distribution or sale of so-called “synethetic” marijuana, marketed under names like K2 incense and Spice.

Representative Tom Sands, a Republican from Wapello, says these are dangerous substances.

“The salvia and the bath salts and the K2 incense are hallucinogenic agents that (are) having a very, very, very serious effect on the mind-alteration of the people that use that,” Sands says. “There has been at least one death from the use of this in Iowa.”

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K2 incense still is making its way into the hands and nervous systems of Pueblo youth, despite a federal ban on it in November, say two local psychotherapists.

Ray Moore, a manager at Bridge to Awareness Counseling Center, 310 W. C St., said K2 basically is a synthetic marijuana that’s packaged and marketed as incense, and used almost exclusively for the potlike high it induces.

K2 incense has the added benefit of being difficult to detect in urinalyses, so people who are subject to regular drug tests are using it instead of recreational marijuana, the psychotherapists said.

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Newton — Join the Center for Prevention and Counseling, along with Newton Police Chief Michael Richards, Detective Tom Tosti and Assemblyman Gary Chiusano to discuss the dangers of the synthetic drug K2 on Thursday, June 9 from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Newton Municipal Building Courtroom.

K2 is an illegal substance marketed as a dried herbal blend for use as incense, marked “not for human consumption.” However, some people are smoking it because it mimics a high similar to marijuana.

Read more at the township journal