The irony is that there would be no market for K2 in the first place if marijuana weren't outlawed. The high is just about what you'd expect from year-old dirt weed: It makes you stupid for a couple of hours and leaves you feeling like your mouth is an ashtray and your head is full of cloudy water.
This is the essential paradox of the synthetic weed products: In a legal vacuum, no one would ever choose to smoke it more than once. Its only appeal is to the poor souls whose paycheck comes with random drug tests, or those without connections to the real stuff.
"The only reason anyone is using this stuff is because they can get arrested for using marijuana," says Mike Meno, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project. "We could have a legal regulated marijuana market where people know what they're getting. Instead we have people messing around with these mystery drugs that are much less safe. It's nonsense."
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