Psychoactive Ingredients in “Spice” and “K-2” Come Under Federal Control as of March 1, 2011

Posted by Tony Bylsma on March 2, 2011 under Drug Abuse Prevention Education | Be the First to Comment

The US Drug Enforcement Administration today exercised its emergency scheduling authority to control five psychoactive ingredients used to make Spice and K-2 and a variety of other “fake pot” products currently being sold in various areas of the country.

This changes existing statutes of these drugs to schedule 1 under the US Controlled Substances Act. Schedule 1 is the most restrictive level of control and is reserved for “substances with a high potential for abuse, no accepted medical use for treatment in the United States and a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug under medical supervision.”

Under the action taken on March 1^st, the schedule 1 designation will remain in effect for 12 months for the following chemicals:

• JWH-018
• JWH-073
• JWH-200
• CP-47,497
• Cannabicyclohexanol

These substances have all been used as ingredients in products labeled with misleading names such as Spice, K-2, Blaze, Red-X-Dawn and herbal incense.

According to the DEA, users of these drugs can experience serious side-effects including convulsions, dangerously elevated heart rates, hypertension, (soaring blood pressure), vomiting, anxiety attacks and disorientation.

Over the coming months, The DEA will further test these chemicals to determine whether or not to make the schedule 1 label permanent.

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