Up in SMOKE
Before the state nipped K2 in the bud, the ersatz ‘pot’ product was selling like hot cakes in head shops
Posted: July 13, 2010 at 4:08 a.m.
Justis Willis exhales K2 on July 1, the day before the Arkansas Board of Health’s 120-day ban took effect. The 21-year-old is a clerk at Wild Things, a shop in Pulaski County opened by Rick Morgan because sales of K2 and other synthetics were booming.
Until quite recently, K2 was just the name of the planet’s second highest peak, an ethereal summit in the faraway Himalayas. The same — “ethereal,” “faraway” — could have been said about a lab synthesis of marijuana.
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