That’s odd, this news should be very important to the UK which has a a big spice problem.
Is Europe a big market for spice?
Spice is not “potent weed”, since it does not contain terpenes and the other spectrum of compounds, one can call it “potent/synthetic weed” as much as sex dolls can be called “synthetic females”, it’s some artificial shite.
Although mostly I’ve only had low quality Indian street weed, and I’ve had such (–>) only once or twice, I love good strains of weed, like rare strains and cool genetics (like the purple, red, orange, yellow, golden, black colored buds that are now seen in the US)… sativas that get you high and boost your nonlinear thinking as well as bodily indicas… but you can’t call good gene weeds (high THC content is a typical characteristic, but there are other compounds of note like limonene) something that gets you “too high”, this “spice” is different. Maybe what passes for “skunk” in some places is crappy weed with spice mixed in, maybe since something like that would be easier to smuggle? After all because of prohibition in many places, weed lovers have to depend on the mafia for their supply. And this should be a problem in Europe, ref the historic “spice traders” (hashashins), Ferdinand, a Berliner at the hemp museum told me, get your weed from the blacks, not the Arabs, because sometimes the latter’s weed is not safe, as i said, a seedy history.
It’s sad that human health is sacrificed due to these sociopolitical/economic calisthenics. A friendly planet would have been with most people being “friends in need = friends with weed”, weed & seeds used to be shared (among the rare weed lovers) just after ww2 quite a lot.
Also check this out pretty cool subculture that won WW2 and overthrew the reefer madness* propagandists : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(1940s_subculture
- (voted the worst film ever** yet it had a lasting impact maybe a reaction to the excesses of the Hippie Age … Hippie is not equal to hipster, the hipsters did only weed, the hippies did all kinds of shit like lsd, crack, coke etc.)