“10 times more active than THC” What does that mean?
Huffman told LiveScience. “You can get very high on [JWH=018]. It’s about 10 times more active than THC,” the active ingredient in marijuana.
From:
http://www.livescience.com/health/fake-marijuana-k2-hallucinations-100303.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20Livesciencecom%20%28LiveScience.com%20Science%20Headline%20Feed%29
How does he quantify activity? Is there a way to measure receptor response per mass of active ingredient?
Also, the article proceeds to use “K2” and “THC” interchangeably, which would be wrong since it sounds like Huffman is only talking about the active ingredient in the K2, JWH-018. Which, sounds like it can vary in amount since it’s a synthetic additive.
Thoughts?
They are his best guesses. Good for you to question the source! It means that from this chemist’s perspective, that K2 sticks to the cannabinoid brain receptor about 10 times greater than THC. Yes I have seen testing that can measure brain receptors. I do not see an inter changeable use of K2 and thc. My thought is to stay away from this junk K2 and salvia and other claims of ‘legal bud’.
Basically, that entire article is propaganda.
Ask anyone who has actually tried k2… it is NO where close as effective as marijuana.
The specific phrase you ask about is intended to lead people to think its a bad drug that is seriously going to impair you – like the way cocaine or meth or being severely drunk would impair you.
They are using k2 and thc interchangeably for two reasons – chemically it is very very close to thc, and because they want to keep the association of marijuana as something bad. So, they come out with an article that makes k2 sound like the devil, and then start replacing the word k2 with marijuana, and it reinforces the opinion that marijuana is the devil.