KFVS12 News & Weather Cape Girardeau, Carbondale, Poplar BluffPolice warn to stay away from "spice"
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(KFVS) - It's known as "K2" or "Spice" or an herbal incense. It's a relatively new product causing quite a bit of concern for police.
Drug agents say it can give you a high, and because it's legal, there is nothing they can do to stop people from using it.
It looks like pot, it works like pot, but it isn't pot.
"It's got the same effect as marijuana, and maybe even last a little bit longer," said undercover drug agent Dan Seger. "Sometimes it's a more intense high, so you're going to have the same impairment in kids and adults."
He recently came across a Jackson man making and selling the so-called incense online.
He says the man would soak a leafy plant called Damiana, in some chemicals to come up with his final product.
"You can roll it in a joint, put it in a cigar, vaporize it," he said.
Heartland News found some of the spice for sale online, and at a store in Cape Girardeau, but employees did not speak on camera.
While the warning on the packages specifically say "not for human consumption" drug agents say people smoke the product to get high.
"The impairment end of it worries me, not to mention the chemical aspects of it," Seger said. "There's not been enough studies done on it by anybody to know what the long lasting effects would be on anybody."
It's also worrisome to DARE Officer A.C. Walker, although she says the product has not shown up in local schools yet.
"We cannot confiscate it, because it is not illegal. Its not even considered a tobacco product. It's an herbal product so we can't do anything about it at this time," she said.
Walker hopes lawmakers ban the spice in the U.S., but some folks say authorities are just blowing smoke.
The product has already been banned in countries like the UK, Russia, and Germany.
A packet of spice goes for $30 to 60, depending on where you buy it.
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