Herbal Incense Side Effects
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Herbal Incense is a natural herb leaves that are crushed to be powder. When burned, this powder explores a sweet aroma that lasts for a long time. Herbal incense has gained many different names since its origination including spice, smoking blend, incense, legal smoke, and many names the maker names it themselves so you will find it called many different things. When one buys cheap herbal incense, find a note over the packet that it is “not for human consumption”. However, numerous people are inhaling herbal incense.
Herbal incense can come in much different potency depending on how pure the producer made it; hence it’s hard to tell the actual side effects sense no studies have been conducted. But, since I actually work for a head shop or smoke shop, I speak with many different people that smoke many different potencies and I have gotten a better understanding of why people smoke it, and how it affects them. This I am here to share with you all in the hopes for you to make your own decision on the matter.
Herbal incense is a generic name for products containing synthetic cannabinoids (most commonly JWH-108). It is called herbal incense to bypass laws prohibiting the advertising of smoking herbal incense ingredients and mixtures that have not been approved by the relevant authorities. Nobody uses it as incense.
Although synthetic cannabinoids were created back in the 1970s it is only since 2002 that they have been widely available to consumers. This means that, compared to other drugs such as marijuana, we do not have that much data on the effects of synthetic weed.
The effects of synthetic cannabinoids seem to vary greatly from individual to individual. e.g. some users say that effects last for no longer than 30 minutes, while others say that they can last for up to 5 hours.
Synthetic cannabinoids are so-called because their effects do, to a certain degree, mimic those of marijuana. This is because both marijuana and synthetic weed bind to the CB1 and CB2 cannabinoid receptors in the brain, which control such functions as short term memory and appetite. However, synthetic cannabinoids seem to have a much greater affinity for the CB1 receptors which accounts for its strong psychotropic properties. Some research has also shown that JWH-018, the most commonly used of these synthetic cannabinoids due to its apparent similarities to cannabis, is also far more potent than cannabis.
There are some fake products that are marketed as herbal incense but some young people are using it to get high. It is smoked to produce a high similar to marijuana. This drug is not available in the online shops but one can get it in local shops illegally. The shopkeeper doesn’t even care that the person who is buying herbal incense is mature or not. Many of the under aged people are found consuming herbal incense just to feel a “synthetic” high.
