Using dried herbs is an alternative to tobacco. Avoid holding smoke in your lungs or breathing in too deeply - take short puffs and be very cautious about smoking in pipes, vapourisers or bongs. Water pipes cause you to inhale more deeply which increase lung damage. Avoid sharing joints, vapes, pipes and bongs with others. For more information visit Crew or read a briefing on Spice.
Synthetic cannabinoids Spice. Synthetic cannabinoids are man-made drugs. Spice is a nickname for a substance containing one or more synthetic cannabinoids. Risks of taking Spice Synthetic cannabinoids are often much stronger and many people describe quite different effects to natural cannabis. Due to their potency, many people experience unpleasant and unpredictable side effects such as: inability to move breathing difficulties heart palpitations seizures extreme anxiety Using with other alcohol and other drugs, including prescribed medicines, increases the risks of unwanted and harmful effects.
The synthetic cannabinoids that were made illegal under the Misuse of Drugs Act, are still covered by that legislation. All other psychoactive substances not currently covered by the Misuse of Drugs Act now fall under the Psychoactive Substances Act. If you or someone else needs urgent help after taking drugs or drinking, call for an ambulance. Tell the crew everything you know.
It could save their life. Synthetic cannabinoids Chemicals designed to act like the main psychoactive chemical in cannabis. How it looks, tastes and smells What does it look like? The most commonly known synthetic cannabinoid is Spice. How do people take it?
Synthetic cannabinoids are normally used in a similar way to cannabis : They can be mixed with tobacco, rolled up into a spliff or joint, and then smoked. They can be smoked without tobacco using a pipe or bong. They can also be swallowed, eaten with food or made into a drink. How it feels How does it make you feel?
Typical effects include: Feelings of being happy, euphoric and relaxed, with some people gettings the giggles, feeling hunger pangs and becoming very talkative, while others get more drowsy. Some will have quite bad reactions, such as paranoia, panic attacks and forgetfulness. The risks Physical health risks The risks of synthetic cannabinoids are similar to natural cannabis , but because synthetic cannabinoids are more potent, it is easy to use too much and experience the unpleasant and harmful effects.
However, manufacturers try to sidestep these laws by changing the chemical formulas in their mixtures. Easy access and the belief that synthetic cannabinoid products are natural and therefore harmless, have likely contributed to their use among young people. Another reason for their continued use is that standard drug tests cannot easily detect many of the chemicals used in these products.
The most common way to use synthetic cannabinoids is to smoke the dried plant material. Users also mix the sprayed plant material with marijuana or brew it as tea. Other users buy synthetic cannabinoid products as liquids to vaporize in e-cigarettes. Synthetic cannabinoids act on the same brain cell receptors as THC deltatetrahydrocannabinol , the mind-altering ingredient in marijuana.
So far, there have been few scientific studies of the effects of synthetic cannabinoids on the human brain, but researchers do know that some of them bind more strongly than marijuana to the cell receptors affected by THC and can produce much stronger effects. The resulting health effects can be unpredictable and dangerous. Because the chemical composition of many synthetic cannabinoid products is unknown and may change from batch to batch, these products are likely to contain substances that cause dramatically different effects than the user might expect.
People who have used synthetic cannabinoids and have been taken to emergency rooms have shown severe effects including:.
Yes, synthetic cannabinoids can be addictive. JWH is now a controlled substance in many countries under narcotics legislation. But the prevalence of next-generation synthetic cannabinoids — now known colloquially as Spice or Mamba — continue to be the largest group of new psychoactive substances NPS in common usage. As of December , 14 different sub-families of cannabinoid agonists have been identified — indicating that there are potentially hundreds of these types of substances circulating via the internet and often across international borders.
Different brands of smoking mixtures can have very different effects, but the strength of a specific brand appears to owe more to the ratio of cannabinoids to chemically inactive plant material in the mixture, rather than the variation in the chemical structure of compounds themselves.
In other words, the specific type of chemical in the mixture is less important than how much chemical there is compared to what has been put in to provide bulk. Some people experience difficulty breathing, rapid heart rate, and shakes and sweats, all of which can lead to a severe panic attacks. At higher doses, balance and coordination can be severely affected.
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