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By STEVEN REILLY

sreilly@njherald.com

NEWTON That honeyed smell entrance from your teenagers’ room might not be strawberries. It could be K2 incense. And it could kill them.

K2 incense; also famous as Spice or G-Four; is an scent product that contains criminialized sovereign Drug Enforcement Administration Schedule-1 fake cannabinoids done to impersonate a effects of a pot “high.” The drug’s honeyed smell has been likened to strawberries.

The product is sole over a opposite during internal preference stores as scent to any chairman with $30. Unlike tobacco products or alcohol, there is no age limitation on a squeeze of K2 incense in New Jersey. Traditional drug tests do not detect K2 incense; an additional screening routine is used to detect a fake drug.

K2 incense resembles dusty spices or oregano and comes in a accumulation of sizes and scented flavors finished in tiny cosmetic tubes or foil bags. The product can be smoked in pipes, water pipes or rolling papers, like marijuana, and a mixture are not regulated.

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Teens are getting high on an emerging drug called “fake weed,” a concoction also known as K2 incense and “spice” that is also causing hallucinations, vomiting, agitation and other dangerous effects.

In the last month, Dr. Anthony Scalzo, a professor of toxicology at Saint Louis University, has seen nearly 30 cases of teenagers experiencing these adverse effects after smoking the fake weed, a legal substance that reportedly offers a marijuana-like high.

“K2 incense use is not limited to the Midwest; reports of its use are cropping up all over the country,” Scalzo said. “I think K2 is likely a bigger problem than we’re aware of at this time.” For instance, Atlanta has seen about 12 cases recently.

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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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