Synthetic replacements for pot growing popular with teenagers

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One deep inhale.

Sandy breathes in the smoke, filling her lungs with the fragrant incense labeled “not for human consumption.”

One long exhale.

“It kinda tastes like flowers,” she said. Smells like it, too.

Sandy, who did not want her last name used in order to protect her identity, said she didn’t feel anything but a little hyper after smoking the hand-rolled cigarette filled with Cobra, an herbal incense blend sold legally in St. Augustine.

Spice, K2 or Triad — all herbal incense blends available legally throughout St. Augustine — are growing in popularity, as some who are spending money on the blend are substituting it for its natural and illegal counterpart: marijuana.

Full story: Synthetic drug attracting teens – St. Augustine Record

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