' Wrote:8 years ago here in Barcelona weed was hard to come by. The Hash trade having been the consumable of choice. Now with the advent of grow shops and internet information. Just about every other rooftop has plants on it. Not to mention those that have built grow rooms in their rented apartments. Also playing into this is the fact that its more expensive to ship hash or weed to this part of the world than it is to just Grow it 60k away from here. Its not legal here, but you are allowed to grow and smoke for personal use with a limit to the amount of plants you can have as an individual. Today..man..some people have really got a green thumb and come up with some really nice homeharvest stress medicine...and you can find it just about anywhere at anytime. Catalunya to become the next Humbolt county. Watch...and see...
They can call it synthetic pot, but its just the some smart company taking advantage of Prohibitionist laws to come up with a marketable product that gets you High and is legal....Easier to just legalize weed if you ask me.
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Whether you are smoking weed in it's original form or pressing it into hash or boiling it into oil it's the same plant. Selling cannibis in hash or oil form allows someone to "cut" other substances into it to either make it weaker and boost profits (hate those guys) or to add a stronger drug into it and "spike" it (hate those guys too).
It's not a good replacement for pot, but for whatever reason, if you have random piss tests on the job, or if it's the time of year the real weed market goes dry for abit, or just simply because you didn't wanna break the law, synthpot was the way to go. Like I said, not a good replacement, but it was a passable substitute.
I went to the Gas N' Sip to go get me some & found out that today is the last day to sell it legally here in the US. The DEA gave everyone a months notice before banning 5 of the chemicals that make the synthetic cannabanoid. Weird thing is, the ban is only to last one year. Look
& a funny thing is that on the local level of some of the places that already banned the stuff before now, some treat posession of synthpot as a felony while treating real pot as a misdemenor. Crazy.