Reply #32: What synthetic pot is

[jmowreader]

It is sold as "herbal incense."

It is a mixture of various, and exotic-sounding, herbs and spices (damiana is always a popular component of this) sprayed with a chemical. The chemical used to be JWH-018 (JWH is for John W. Huffman, the mad scientist who invented it) but can now be JWH-019, JWH-073 or JWH-200, all of which do essentially the same thing, because JWH-018 is illegal in many jurisdictions and they've got a piss test for it, but not for the other three.

Now, if a truly liberal media would have written this, the head would have been...

Boy who inhales burning plastic from makeshift pot pipe dies

Kids these days. I swear, the level of education in this country has just gone downhill...back in the 1970s when we had REAL potheads, this kid would have made a pipe out of a Coke can and we'd have never heard of him.