It’s almost time to start a four-day holiday weekend. Personally, I can’t wait to go home, kick my shoes off, roll up a fatty blunt of fake weed and smoke it to my dome. All I have to do now is last a few more hours without Uncle Sam doing something rash like banning fake weed. Dammit.Looks like replica reefer has now joined caffeinated booze on the list of simple pleasures I can no longer partake in.The Drug Enforcement Agency issued an emergency ban today on five chemicals that are used to make fake pot products like “K2,” “Blaze” and “Red X Dawn” that are sold in head-shops in dozens of states, including Washington.The products are basically common herbs that are sprayed with chemicals and, when smoked, puts one in a state somewhere between “not quite high” and “I have a bad headache.”The DEA says the products’ chemicals “mimic THC” and are a problem with teens and young adults.So you hear that, teens and young adults? Smoke up that fake weed now, because after this it’s nothing but real weed from then on.
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