Those 'spices' that you find at head shops, of supposedly synthetic cannabinoids, just spell trouble waiting to happen - they are pure RC's, as we don't know what's in them, and the only thing it ['spice'] compares itself to, weed, is completely different as a drug compound.
The only arguments I'm seeing on this thread for spices over actual weed are that 1 - 'spice' or whatever is legal at the moment, and 2 - 'spice' is supposedly cheaper.
OK, first off, weed used to be legal too, man, just because it isn't right now (think...Mexican workers coming to southern America in the early 20th century...they were thought to be lazy and this was associated with their marijuana use...) doesn't mean it should be. I get that drug tests suck - you think I don't know that? But if that's the issue, well, you may as well just accept the fact that you are part of the matrix, unfortunately, so either don't smoke weed, because you can't, or find a job that doesn't drug test. The 'spice', fake weed, is actually bad for your body...does anyone get that?? Spice is man-made, out of ingredients that you can find at hardware stores - it is not a plant!!!!!! It's not even fake weed, it's just an abomination.
And also, weed isn't cheap, but come on people, it's not like coke or some shit! OK, it's more expensive than a pack of cigarettes, but it's definitely not more expensive to get high as shit once or twice a week compared to, say, getting drunk as shit at a local bar - and actually, it'd easily be cheaper to smoke weed for one night a week than to go and buy a lot of expensive beers over the counter.
I personally think that a lot of people's complaints about how much weed costs are just based in trying to find SOME argument against smoking weed...if used in strict moderation, like it should be, it's really not that big of an expense, just saying.
Lastly, if you can't deal with dealers, that's kind of sad...a little social interaction never hurt anyone...I think a lot of people these days think the drug game is exactly like what they see in 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' on TV. Hate to break it to you guys, but those shows weren't about weed dealers, they were about drug kingpins who dealt in heroin, coke, meth, etc...in other words, HARD drugs, with huge networks. Trying to compare the underground of weed dealers to that shit is pretty ludicrous.
Anyway, if you don't even know where I'm coming from, then I don't know what to say to you. I've seen some pretty ignorant posts on this thread, keep it real guys...