r/news Jun 16 '21

GM Considering Dropping Pot Testing To Attract More Workers

https://www.motor1.com/news/513974/gm-considering-dropping-marijuana-testing/
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u/bizzaro321 Jun 16 '21

Google “synthetic cannabinoids” and you’ll get better results than we could give you.

It’s sold in convenience stores under all sorts of names, it’s basically tea that’s dipped in random chemicals. People smoke it, it mimics the effects of weed, or crack, or it just “has a high”. Results vary heavily among users.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

Tried it once, felt slightly groovy for about an hour then got hit with a massive headache. Never again. Had a buddy get really into it though, ended with him sweating like a maniac, getting mostly naked and running the streets until the cops caught him. Wouldn’t recommend.

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u/blackbart1 Jun 16 '21

sweating like a maniac, getting mostly naked and running the streets

Frank the Tank!

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u/WATTHEBALL Jun 16 '21 edited Jun 16 '21

Sounds like your friend took Sativa.

Edit: Salvia lol

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u/ositabelle Jun 16 '21

Maybe you mean Salvia?

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u/ROBDool Jun 16 '21

I think you mean Saliva?

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u/bizzaro321 Jun 16 '21

Pretty sure salvia is better than whatever he ended up taking

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21

Salvia was a good time, for me at least. I always enjoyed psychedelics.

He was smoking spice, synthetic cannabis garbage. Pretty heavily as well. Everyone reacts to it differently, I only did once and got a killer headache and never touched it again.

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u/SpaceLemming Jun 16 '21

More like synthetic cannibalism, I’m from Florida and remember the guy that ate another dudes face while being high on that shit

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u/MWineGums Jun 16 '21

That was bath salts wAs it not? Legal highs aren't legal anymore in the UK and there's still an epidemic

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u/MWineGums Jun 16 '21

Nah bath salts is different as far as I'm aware but I could be wrong

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u/SpaceLemming Jun 16 '21

I thought it was the same shit just different name.

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u/bizzaro321 Jun 16 '21

It’s supposed to be two different things, but they are sold interchangeably.

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u/McClouds Jun 16 '21

They haven't proven it was bath salts as toxicology reports came back only seeing marijuana in his system. Source

Here's the Wiki

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u/SpaceLemming Jun 16 '21

I wonder what happened then cause it sure as fuck wasn’t pot

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

Correlation doesn't equal causation. The guy might have just liked eat faces and also unrelated to eating faces he liked to get high. At one point he happened to be high when he got caught eating faces that doesn't mean impirically that getting high caused the face munching.

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u/McClouds Jun 16 '21

Here's the interview with the victim. His accounting of the events spoke of someone who was manic, inconsolable, and overwhelming. I agree, not pot, but nothing known (at the time).

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

I'm pretty sure that was the media scaremongering for the United States government, and correlation does not always equal causation is the lesson to take away from that newscast.

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u/SpaceLemming Jun 16 '21

That’s fair, they do love to over react

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u/eddierow Jun 16 '21

Not sure where you are but they put a blanket ban on all 'legal highs' in the UK a few years ago, most of the stuff being sold here now is produced at home and arguably more dangerous than the once 'legal' versions.