Health Department warns against Spice
By Jennie Christensen
Story Created: Feb 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM MDT
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Story Updated: Feb 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM MDT )
It is undoubtedly not true, a Facebook rumor that a legal drug called "Spice" has caused five deaths and 11 overdoses at a local hospital. That rumor cannot be substantiated, but on KVNU's For the People program Tuesday night a Bear River Health Department professional warned against the use of the drug.
It goes by such names as Pep Spice, Black Mamba, Ocean Breeze, Dragon and Bombay Blue. All of those brand names are basically synthetic marijuana.
Brock Alder, Director of Treatment Services at the Health Department, says not much is known about the drug right now and although it is legal, he warns that the label says it's not for human consumption.
"With a lot of the other drugs, I mean there are so many things cut with who knows what, I think people that are into this kind of stuff just don't plain think about it at all," Alder said. "It doesn't bother them. They are willing to take those risks to get that high."
Alder says some of the people the department sees have been using spice and it is apparently available locally.
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SHELLSHELL said on Thursday, Jun 2 at 7:04 PM
I have tried spice, several kinds, I would recommend smoking very small amounts. I smoked about 2 bowls of the defiant summitt. I was so stoned, I was seeing my life in a movie, I heard voices, felt sick, I have learned my lession!!
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D said on Wednesday, Jun 1 at 12:21 AM
Wha most people dont know is that it DOES CONTAIN HU-210. The ONLY substance known to Humans that does the oppisite effect on the brain as all other drugs. It causes the brain to GROW new cell and neurons in the Hippocampus region. Whick controls short term momory and spacial awareness. The only reason it is getting bad Rep is because it is a Cannabinoid. IT IS SAFE.
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Poncho said on Thursday, May 26 at 6:49 PM
Wow! see that Head Trip brand pop up a lot, and it really startled me! So there i was... The third time i smoked spice; i rolled 2 single gram joints of Head Trip. I proceeded to then smoke one joint as i drove north bound on the 5. Having a really swell time driving now! I light up number 2. now i can not feel my fingers, and Dave Chappel's stand up has never been funnier. i think i hit my exact limit at gram 2, and had the best night just driving. i do not endorse driving while intoxicated by any means. What is VERY different about spice in relation to Marijuana, is that there seems to be an approximate limit to how much a person can ingest, or smoke (Of course it seems one can switch marijuana with oxygen, and still function). Here lies the danger, as a social smoker of weed myself, i know it is often about seeing just how hight you can get. so any stoner looking for an alternative to pot, is going to smoke spice, just like weed, and such is just not an option with spice.
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at peace said on Wednesday, May 25 at 12:24 AM
u kno spice is ok.. i got up here last night or the night before talking about how bad it is and how i almost died... i dont even kno if that even made it to where yall can read.. anyways im high right now and its not a bad one at all.. the trick is that u gotta kno ur limits.. its much better to start off with a lil bit.. smoke that and if u dont feel anything in about 5 mins then smoke a lil more.. but i am at fault the other times for smoking way more than i should have.. thats what gets everyone in trouble.. but its also just in ur head.. when i freaked out over one lil thing it made me mega paranoid so i started making it way bigger than it was.. so it seemed like an eternity.. but my friend told me it was all in my head so when i smoked this last time i started feeling a lil panicky but i remembered it was all in my head and before u knew it i calmed down and it wasnt but like 1 min or so.. otherwise, when u freak out, it will feel like its goin on forever.. be careful!!
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joey castaneda said on Tuesday, May 24 at 8:38 AM
think headtrip is crazy try the syn "ripped" that stuff is nuts first my face got numb then my heart was beating hella fast then stuff began to shrink like my friends head and the laundry basket on the floor and doorways were crooked im only telling to inform if you dont believe me just try it yourself the whole expierience wasfun and crazy at the same time loved it but it is so expensive and i heard that they are going to ban it to bad oh well there is still all the fire bud and salvia
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Anonymous said on Tuesday, May 24 at 8:33 AM
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kyle said on Tuesday, May 24 at 7:53 AM
ok people come on. i have smoked weed for about 4 years before i joined the millitary then i started to smoke head trip. I LOVE HEAD TRIP. i have tripped balls before but thats just because i smoked too much of it. i remember this one time i was freaking out like everyone else said there heart was beating fast, ITS IN YOUR HEAD. i just got a drink and something to eat i was fine. really people just think logicaly. i've been smoking head trip and other spices for about 3 years now, im perfectly fine. and for those people that dont beleive me try it one more time and if you start to tripp to hard or start to freak just go get a drink or something to eat. doing this will relax you
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kripto said on Monday, May 23 at 1:33 PM
Pep is the best thhing evere!! at first i hated it because i over did it by alot. by 31/2 weeks i started buying 20 to 50 grams of it i started to like the feeling over over doing it. i've been in the hospitle o time you just need to know how to handle it so don't bee a B#$ch
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Anonymous said on Sunday, May 22 at 10:50 PM
Most of these posts sound like a anti spice drug commercial. The stories are just a little over the top. Im sure there have been people that have had seizures and visits to the emergency room. All of that depends on the person.I know this from personal experience. If u cant handle the high dont play with the poison
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LOLyallFUNNY!! said on Thursday, May 19 at 7:43 PM
ok well heres everybodys issue....you smoke 4 the first time A L O N E. thats where u f***ed up. you need to have someone who is familiar with the brands and strengths with you. my first time was on HEAD TRIP. i was given a small glass bowl with just a pinch....i.e. 1 to 2 tokes. my first thought was...."whats this?.....grass clippings?...lol...but i trusted my friend so i cleaned the bowl....10 min later i felt like i was living in tommy chongs beard lol....if u dont have a spice smart buddy then do ur research first...and remember its NOT WEED so quit rolln blunts and joints....bowls are safest 4 measuring your intake. best to start with too little than too much...dont operate any vehicle while "lit" and give it atleast 15 min to kick in b4 u smoke more....this stuff has been a life saver 4 my nerves. I SUPPORT SPICE.
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lucky to be alive said on Saturday, May 14 at 8:51 PM
All my life I've been strongly against weed for personal reasons. However my boyfriend smokes the herbal incenses pretty often and about a month ago he bought Head Trip and he had never tried it before. Wanting to know why he smoked the stuff I offered to smoke it first. Big mistake. I'm not sure how much of it I smoked but it was definitely too much. Not even 5 mins later I could remember how I had gotten to the next room. My whole body felt on fire, my heart was beating extremely fast, I threw up, I couldn't remeber things but at the same time I could there's no way to explain it. I felt lik 5 mins was an hour. I literally thought I was gonna die. The only thing stopping me from letting my boyfriend take me to the ER was that I knew the 15 min car ride would feel like eternity. Thiis lasted about 4 hours. Nothing happened to my boyfriend probably because he's an experienced smoker. He still smokes the stuff but now even the smell of it makes me feel sick. Please don't smoke this stuf
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Tyler said on Tuesday, May 10 at 8:38 AM
How is spice legal and marijuana isnt? it should be the other way around.
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Tyler said on Tuesday, May 10 at 8:36 AM
Dont EVER smoke head trip, and if you do, take 2 hits max. But anyawys. i like spice but if you smoke to much its horrible. One night i decided to smoke 2 bowls of this stuff called TOMATOAST CANDY, and i loved it, the first 2 hours i was just having the time of my life. then i started puking, non stop and i was unresponsive to everything. and i just felt like i was about to die for about an hour and a half until i finally passed out.
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Anonymous said on Tuesday, May 10 at 4:39 AM
Hey it works, and I can pass a drug test high. Thanks!
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Chronic Herbal Abuser said on Sunday, May 8 at 5:10 AM
One brand may be weak and another will knock you out. My first time was hectic. Now, I use the strongest stuff on the market(Bonzai) about 3grams a day. I've burned 10-OUNCES by myself over the past 6months. I'm perfectly healthy and have maintained a 3.2GPA in my Engineering class. NOT FOR BEGINNERS. You guys are ALL ruining something goof for the poeple that use APPROPRIATELY. This is not weed. You can't be a chrnoic weed smoker and think your tuff guy with this. it'll knock you flat out if you aren't cautious! Stick with the same brand too!!! And poison? Weed gets sprayed with every chemical under the kitchen cabinet to get weighted down, not to mention most use fertilizers to grow the stuff, yet people still smoke it knowing that!
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Anon said on Friday, May 6 at 3:27 PM
i took one hit of this pep spice stuff and i felt really weird right away. i got very scared and my heart started beating really fast. my head was throbbing, my body was shaking, and i was just trying to go to sleep. what felt like 10 hours was actually 30 minutes. i was in a panic mode that i couldn't get out of and it was terrible
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Anonymous said on Wednesday, May 4 at 1:37 PM
im a regular weed smoker, but lately the towns been dry and last night my friend gave me a bowl pack of some spice called head trip. DONT TRY IT. Its hard to explain exactly what happened but it was the scariest experience of my life. i only hit it 3 times and i was okay at first, but i went to lay down and watch a movie and as soon as i laid down my chest and left arm started hurting. i told myself that i was just freaking out for no reason and everything was fine, but a couple mins later my heart started beating abnormally fast, all of a sudden i involuntarily jumped out of the bed, my heart felt like it was failing and trying to revive itself. i couldnt breathe, and i was gasping for air. i was shaking uncontrollably and for 2 minutes strait my chest was huting so bad i couldnt move. i was afraid to go to sleep so i made a friend come stay with me. my chest STILL hurts this morning. my advice: dont try it, just stick to weed. i dont understand how something like that can be legal bu
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Anonymous said on Monday, May 2 at 6:20 PM
I wouldn't recommend HEAD TRIP tried it for the first time yesterday and I will never do that again. You get really hot, it effects your nerves and heart rate. you black out. It is terrible and I still have a HEAD ACHE from 43 hours ago when I smoked it. The high last about 4 hours and you can't do anything at all and you can't remember that much and a couple of people have died from it it thank GOD I'm still here after that I felt like I was about to die. In all honesty HEAD TRIP and HEAD ACHE should be ILLEGAL
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emily said on Sunday, May 1 at 6:42 PM
I'm a 19 year old female and I've been smoking spice versus weed for a couple months now. The first time I tried Mr. Nice Guy, I rolled up .6 and had a terrible experience. But, despite that I tried it again, just with skinny blunts. Which has been working ever since lol. I smoke around 10 a day.. its just like a good weed. It really only should be used by experienced smokers.. seriously. And its true.. IT IS ALL IN YOUR MIND! If you start to feel crazy.. breathe, drink water, eat, stay positive, etc. Stay calm and lie down. If you think you're going to freak out and trip.. you will.
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Anonymous said on Thursday, Apr 28 at 10:51 AM
it's all in your mind...if u know u freak out easily or easily stressed or have anxiety probs or something don't smoke it....it's as easy as that...and if u notice the only people whose heart races are the people that FREAKED OUT...of course ur heart is going to race everyones heart races when they get scared...
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Anonymous said on Thursday, Apr 28 at 10:41 AM
I've smoked a lot of this stuff and havn't experienced any problems....and when i say alot me and a few buddies finished bout 10 grams in a week and we had no effects....two girls that had never tried it before got scared because they didn't understand wat was going on with there body and had the thoughts that they were going to die but that was most likely cause they smoked to much for their first time do to them being just fine when the high had worn off...other then that there was a kid in my town that they had thought had a so called seizure and he had been rushed to the hospital but wat it actually turned out to being was he had some condition where he blacked out randomly...a condition he already had...and he was just fine after the high wore off too
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Ron Burgundy said on Tuesday, Apr 26 at 9:59 PM
I used to smoke bud all the time. Good stuff great. I couldnt get enough. Had to stop for 3 years for a job. Smoked pot regularly for 5 months after with nothing. Started on K2 and it worked fine. I had no bad reactions ever. It was very much like weed. Well K2 went illegal in florida so i tried another brand called Head Trip and Cloud 10...at the same time. Big mistake. It started fine for about 20 minutes but then i noticed that i began to feel funny. Almost like my hand and arms were detatched from my body. Colors got brighter, but the scariest thing of all my heart rate increased to the point of death. My heart rate was 149 when the ambulance arived. I was seeing things and having trouble breathing. I called 911 then called my mom to tell her goodbye. I was alone and completely terrified. I could barely complete a senence. I lost use of my fingers. It was difficult to even dial 911. My vision got black and all you can feel is your heart about to explode.. literally explode.
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still alive said on Monday, Apr 25 at 6:10 PM
YES,in fact this HEAD TRIP...is poison and hits the nerve system and makes you hot unable to function.Your head feels likes it's burning,you pace the floors some times not able to even walk,makes you feel like you are coming out of your body,the burning and the feeling of your heart about to stop beating,the thought of you about to leave this world is not an awesome trip,myself and a loved one knocked on death's door last night,we had to hit our knees and pray to GOD that we would never do something so stupid ever again!We had tried many other kinds before but,HEAD TRIP should be illegal.And i pray that it will be.My experience from this stuff was life threating and we still don't know what kind of damage may had been caused to our body's.Consumption of poison and what long term threats it still could cause.
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still alive said on Monday, Apr 25 at 4:13 PM
and...i meant to say life threatening,and it lasted up to 4 hrs,it was the worst feeling in my life.
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still alive said on Monday, Apr 25 at 10:54 AM
YES,in fact this HEAD TRIP...is poison and hits the nerve system and makes you hot unable to function.Your head feels likes it's burning,you pace the floors some times not able to even walk,makes you feel like you are coming out of your body,the burning and the feeling of your heart about to stop beating,the thought of you about to leave this world is not an awesome trip,myself and a loved one knocked on death's door last night,we had to hit our knees and pray to GOD that we would never do something so stupid ever again!We had tried many other kinds before but,HEAD TRIP should be illegal.And i pray that it will be.My experience from this stuff was life treating and we still don't know what kind of damage may had been caused to our body's.Consumption of poison and what long term treats it still could cause.