thank you.

He's the opposite of http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=103613

I'm probably going to sound really lame here, but what exactly is it? Is it an actual drug? I did a Google search for the stuff, and couldn't find anything too informative.

I did find this gem, however; http://herbalcity.com/whiterabbit.htm

Some of my favorite snippits:

"We do not sell any products on this page or suggest any products on this page for human consumption. However they are 100% natural, to the best of our knowledge legal and safe therefore you as a consumer can practice your constitutional rights of freedom of choice and do what ever you wish with it.
Herbal City™LLC. will not be held responsible for and misuse of any product we sell."

"WHITE RABBIT HERBAL SMOKE is the most POWER and POWERFUL, THE MOST POTENT and absolutely the most and possibly the one and only PSYCHEDELIC herbal smoke of it's kind on the market possibly in the world that is 100% NATURAL, 100% LEGAL and SAFE!

This is SO POTENT that we DO NOT SELL IT FOR or SUGGEST it for human consumption. It may be purchased for a beautiful psychedelic experience."

It's synthetic pot, better known as K2. Companies spray a bunch of weird chemicals on otherwise non-psychoactive plant material, so that, when smoked, it produces an effect somewhat similar to marijuana. But, since it's NOT pot, and doesn't contain any material that's restricted by law, it's totally legal! Or at least it used to be; I think it's been banned in most countries now, because, you know, drugs are bad and we're all children who can't make choices for ourselves.

The stuff has been around for about a decade, but only started getting popular (at least here in New England) a few years back. They sold it in gas stations, next to the gum and lottery tickets, which was a big part of it's appeal to stoners. Then the media got wind of it, and the usual stuff happened - sensational news reports insinuating that the stuff might be toxic and could kill your children (which, to be fair, is entirely plausible, it's just that there's no hard science to suggest this is actually the case), followed by politicians and DEA officials stepping up to bat to assure us that they would protect us from ourselves, a bunch of stoners whingeing, and then boom, no more embalmed oregano in gas stations. Then everyone went back to pot. Conflict resolved and back to normal, so we can film the next episode.

I don't know about White Rabbit specifically but basically there's all sorts of "herbal blend" smokes out there, all of varying quality. The implication is, of course, that smoking this shit will get you TOTALLY BLAZED BRO but the few blends I've tried taste like you're smoking incense or something. It's horrible. They're completely legal, but not very good for you at all. Typically these blends are usually based around different types of cannabis (the no-THC kind of cannabis plants that are related to pot but not actually pot) that have no actual chemical element that would get you high, but people of course claim they do anyway. NO I SWEAR, BRO.
The thing about this stuff is that since it doesn't really get you high, the makers usually add a lot of weird shit to give you a woozy feeling to make you assume it's the same as a pot-style smoke, and the stuff they add to it is usually, like, 10 times worse for you than just actually smoking weed.
There are some brands on the market that are natural blends and very clean, pleasant smokes, but that stuff doesn't sell. At the end of the day, if you really want to get high on something that's legal, buy salvia.

The only time I tried anything like this (as a joke, because the creepy dude who was dating a friend's sister brought it to a party) it didn't do anything, and checking the ingredients the only thing that wasn't completely inert was a really small (too small to do anything) amount of salvia. I'm really glad It wasn't this stuff.

If you want to become a vortex of slowly rotating discs extruded from the fabric of your own past and spinning outward from your heart into the walls of a pitch black, windowless room that you can see in as well as if it were broad daylight then buy salvia.

Also, real weed is cheaper and easier to find than this stuff.

I smoked salvia and experienced time as a thin paper sheet that could be peeled back to reveal ...something. Not sure what, but it was really immense and powerful. Then 15 minutes passed and the whole thing was over. Believe it or not, it was extremely pleasant and if I were sure it wouldn't mess with my meds for bipolar disorder, I'd do it again.

So just going and smoking weed would be better for you than this completely legal substance? That's pretty messed up...

Thanks, by the way. Interesting stuff, if not slightly depressing.

Synthetic cannabinoids, a whole family of different chemicals that interact with your cannabinoid receptors, often in very different ways then traditional reefer. THC (and other natural cannabioids we are used to_) is a long acting partial agonist, that means when you smoke, you slow get a buzz, it lasts a while, and then slowly goes away ad you return to baseline

Synthetics are short acting full agonists. This means they are addictive. They hit the receptors like a semi-truck, last for a very short duration, then it's all over and you crash.

Unlike pot, you can very easily OD on these. Luckily, so far, none of them appear to be THAT dangerous, but they do cause terrible panic, even for someone fully prepared and even experienced in an OD. You take a tiny pinch of this stuff, barely touch it with flame, and wait 15 minutes before you touch it again. These substances are active in the micro- and milligram level dose.

He hasn't eaten in two days because cannabinoids regulate your digestive track and these substances pretty much seize it up. Chronic users often report stomach pains and anorexia, this can get much worse upon discontinuation. Withdrawals from these drugs can be quite difficult to deal with.

Make no mistake these are hard drugs.

The blends are even worse. "Prepared" by kids in their garage, they are terribly inconsistant often varying batch to batch in strength and makeup. It's hard to apply a substance so potent to leaf matter and not end up with 'hot-spots' localized concentrations of drugs that make dosing a serious risk. They are marketed with straight up lies, there's nothing in anyway true on that website above.

There are a number of good sources of information on these blends, harm-reduction forums and websites, that have a lot more detail then I will go into here. It's really worth looking into.

As for the D-bag above, screw him, shit like this ruins drugs for the rest of us.

He's over 15 so not typical.

It tastes like salad.