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    Friday, January 27th, 2012
    8:56 pm
    What's all the Hype About Spice Smoking? The Herbal Spice Phenomenon
    Spice smoking or Herbal Spice Incense as it is frequently called is the latest smoking trend. Individuals of all ages and backgrounds are embracing these new products. Offered in either foil packages or at times plastic canisters, spice herbal smoke is often a mixture of a variety of different psychotropic plants and herbs from around the planet. All of the spice smoke products sold through most websites are 100% organic, all-natural, and guaranteed to produce a pleasing, long-lasting effect.

    Even though some varieties of spice smoke are required to tag their product as "Not fit for human consumption," most people have taken that with a grain of salt. By far the most accepted use of these products is as spice to smoke to get high, using anything from a water pipe to rolling papers. Those who have in no way used Legal Spice To Smoke this way beforehand are often surprised at the potency and strength of the effects, which can vary from "unable to move from a basic sitting down position due to the relative strength of the herbal spice to overall feelings of ecstasy and goodwill.

    Legal Spice

    Individuals use spice to smoke for a variety of different reasons. Some take pleasure in it as a legal alternative to good old mary jane (not a substitute, which is different). Certainly, many individuals who have enjoyed the effects of marijuana in the past find that certain kinds of Herbal Spice Smoke are remarkably similar in both scent and effects. Many of the spice smoke sellers have capitalized on this similarity and called their spice products with marijuana-themed titles. Those who decide to try legal herbal buds often change to smoking them almost entirely as a substitute for cannabis for several reasons.

    The most widespread reason for changing to spice to smoke instead of THC-based products is simple: drug tests. Most everyone in Western society nowadays is compelled to receive a drug test sooner or later, and most often it's sooner. If you want to get a job; keep a job; get health insurance; even compete in semi-professional sports, you must be capable to pass a drug test. The ultimate advantage to smoking spice is that it cannot be found in a drug testing. Many of the Spice Legal Bud goods out there use this as an marketing point, that they will NOT produce you to fail any drug testing. One reason they can be sure of this is that the drug tests administered today do not even test for anything that might be found in a spice herbal blends.

    A record of using spice to smoke has to start with a professor at Clemson University named John W. Huffman. Beginning in 1984, Professor Huffman experimented on synthesizing cannabinoids, or synthetic cannabis. They succeeded in creating more than 450 of these compounds. Being public domain, this data was soon appropriated by the marijuana society, which then began producing a number of the synthetic marijuana products and selling them as spice herbal products, alternately called "K2" or just "Spice".

    Spice To Smoke

    On the other hand a history of smoking would have to go all the way back to long before the time of Christ. Smoking in these eras was frequently used as a means of contacting the spirit world and tobacco has been linked to religious rituals as far back as 4,000 B.C. Cannabis smoking, on the other hand, is a relative newcomer only being made known to have been smoked as far back as 1,500 years. However, cultural and linguistic evidence can place cannabis smoking in ancient African, European, Chinese, Indian, Middle Eastern, and almost certainly even North American culture at around that time or later.

    Nor is smoking buds as prohibited as many individuals believe. Modern Indian customs, for case in point, includes a number of religious festivals during which wise men (called sadhus) walks the streets offering sacrifices to the Hindu goddess Shiva. These sacrifices are offered by smoking as much marijuana and hashish as possible throughout the festival. Even in the U.S., obtaining cannabis is as simple as getting a doctor's prescription in a number of states, and the medical marijuana business in California alone made $2 billion last year.

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