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Hallucinations and delusions

Since JWH-018 or K2 acts like marijuana, you'd expect to see the same effects, including sleepiness, relaxation, reduced blood pressure, and at high doses, hallucinations and delusions.

While some patients between the ages of 14 and 21 were showing up with hallucinations, other symptoms, such as increased agitation and elevated blood pressure and heart rates, didn't match up with marijuana.

Scalza speculates either another compound is responsible for the nasty side effects, or the concentration of JWH-018 is too high.

To answer this question, Scalzo is having doctors test patients' urine for JWH-018 and other compounds, but he is having trouble getting patients to agree to the test.

"This is not something that people are agreeing to," Scalzo said during a telephone interview. "Here's a legal substance that we don't know really that much about that people are putting into their bodies without quality control."

And even though doctors like Scalzo say they'd like to help the teens, that's not enough. "Phenomenally, people are saying no. They're afraid someone is going to find something," though Scalzo has no idea why they'd be afraid.

Det er da latterligt, at man overhovedet prøver at udvikle et stof, der har samme funktion som hash, der bare skal være lovligt i stedet, selvom det har samme/flere bivirkninger. Så ville det da give mere mening, bare at gøre hash lovligt, og så bruge forskerpengene på noget mere fornuftigt.

Hvorfor er det latterligt at udvikle nye psykoaktive stoffer, der kan have samme potentiale som cannabis? Jeg ville personlig blive glad, hvis man udviklede syntetiske cannabinoider, der har færre bivirkninger end cannabis. Det giver vel sig selv, at det mest fornuftige ville være at udvikle rusmidler, der besidder færre bivirkninger end dem, vi kender til i dag, men som samtidig har potentiale for at kunne erstatte de andre rusmidler, folket benytter sig af i disse tider. Så flere penge i kasserne til forskning i alternativer!

Kom nu lige ind i kampen. Jeg forstår godt, der er så meget uenighed i verden, når folk ikke lytter til, hvad andre siger og derfor taler forbi hinanden.

Jeg er enig i at man skal udvikle mindre farlige stoffer, hvis det kan lade sig gøre. Dog er det da idiotisk at prøve at videreudvikle et af de mindst farlige stoffer der er på markedet.