What happens when a person smokes K2, Spice Gold, or other herbal incense products?
Before trying to find out what was in the herbal incense products, Auwarter wanted to know whether the products really had any activity. So he took what is these days a very unusual step: He and a colleague tested the products on themselves. They took a packet of a product called Spice Diamond and rolled 300 milligrams — a tenth of the package — into a cigarette paper. The two men shared the cigarette, so each consumed only a small dose of about 150 milligrams. “Nothing happened in the first five minutes. I was just about to roll the next one and suddenly the effects came quite quickly,” Auwarter tells WebMD. “I had massive reddening of the eyes, and a very dry mouth. My heart rate doubled, from 60 to 120 beats per minute. And the feeling of intoxication was like the experience reported by cannabis users.” Auwarter’s heart pounded away for the six hours it took for the drug’s acute effects to wear off. He did not sleep well that night and felt a slight hangover the next day. Huffman
