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Deseret News
By Jay Evensen, Deseret News
Published: Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010 12:00 a.m. MST
With reader comments
'Some time early next year, Utah lawmakers will consider a 57-page bill that would outlaw the sale and possession of Spice.
Before you race to the kitchen and start hiding your spice rack in places where the "fuzz" won't easily see it, I'm not talking about the stuff you put on food to make it taste better.
Or am I?
It's so hard to know these days, or to keep up with the ways people, particularly young ones, are finding to escape reality, hallucinate and potentially destroy themselves.
Actually, something in your spice rack may be of interest to police. As a story in this newspaper warned last week, nutmeg is the latest legal high to sweep the country. People smoke it or swallow a lot of it, and they get horribly sick.
It's nothing new, actually. People have been trying to get high off nutmeg for years, just as they've been suffering seizures, heart problems and vomiting from those attempts, as well. It's just that nutmeg didn't become a newly rediscovered fad until Internet sites like Youtube allowed kids to share their ways of getting legally high, along with films of themselves acting idiotic while doing it.'
'One particularly tragic story was reported recently in Britain's Daily Mail. A 35-year-old newlywed thought she looked fat in her wedding photos. She read on-line that Ivory Wave would help her lose weight. It worked. She dropped from a size 16 to a six. But then she couldn't stop.
The newspaper said she became paranoid, aggressive, afraid of everything and unable to sleep. Her heart rate and blood pressure rose dangerously. She and her husband separated after only eight months. Friends urged her to stop but had no way to force her.
Finally, she slipped into a coma. Her family removed her from life support when it was apparent she never would recover.'
Full article: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700088157/Staying-ahead-of-legal--ways-to-get-high-isnt-easy.html
By Jay Evensen, Deseret News
Published: Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010 12:00 a.m. MST
With reader comments
'Some time early next year, Utah lawmakers will consider a 57-page bill that would outlaw the sale and possession of Spice.
Before you race to the kitchen and start hiding your spice rack in places where the "fuzz" won't easily see it, I'm not talking about the stuff you put on food to make it taste better.
Or am I?
It's so hard to know these days, or to keep up with the ways people, particularly young ones, are finding to escape reality, hallucinate and potentially destroy themselves.
Actually, something in your spice rack may be of interest to police. As a story in this newspaper warned last week, nutmeg is the latest legal high to sweep the country. People smoke it or swallow a lot of it, and they get horribly sick.
It's nothing new, actually. People have been trying to get high off nutmeg for years, just as they've been suffering seizures, heart problems and vomiting from those attempts, as well. It's just that nutmeg didn't become a newly rediscovered fad until Internet sites like Youtube allowed kids to share their ways of getting legally high, along with films of themselves acting idiotic while doing it.'
'One particularly tragic story was reported recently in Britain's Daily Mail. A 35-year-old newlywed thought she looked fat in her wedding photos. She read on-line that Ivory Wave would help her lose weight. It worked. She dropped from a size 16 to a six. But then she couldn't stop.
The newspaper said she became paranoid, aggressive, afraid of everything and unable to sleep. Her heart rate and blood pressure rose dangerously. She and her husband separated after only eight months. Friends urged her to stop but had no way to force her.
Finally, she slipped into a coma. Her family removed her from life support when it was apparent she never would recover.'
Full article: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700088157/Staying-ahead-of-legal--ways-to-get-high-isnt-easy.html
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