Spice, fake weed and fake hash: how to tell
This article has been translated to English.
Spice, K2, fake weed and fake hash are all one thing: plant material sprayed with a synthetic cannabinoid such as MDMB-4en-PINACA and sold as cannabis. The compounds are cheap to make and most are full agonists at the CB1 receptor, where THC is only partial, which is why they do harm cannabis does not: kidneys, heart, psychosis, and in the worst case a fatal overdose. You cannot see or smell them, because they are sprayed on from solution and dry invisibly into the material.
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The reagent finds them by doing nothing
The Cannabis reagent (4-AP) reacts with the plant’s own cannabinoids and stays colourless on the synthetics. On material sold to you as weed, an absent colour is therefore the result itself: no cannabinoid is present. That is an indirect detection, in the same way a blank Ehrlich on a blotter sold as acid points at an NBOMe.
It works the other way too. A correct reaction, blue for THC-dominant or pink to violet for CBD-dominant, says real plant material is in front of you. Which synthetic it would be is not something a bottle can answer, because there are too many of them and most have no reference reaction.
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What to test first
CBD flower and hash bought as a legal product, because that is exactly where spraying pays for itself. Vape liquid, tested as a dried drop. And any material from a source you do not know, every time: one bottle covers around a hundred tests.
Which synthetic cannabinoids are on the market · Delta-8, HHC and the semi-legal cannabinoids
Questions?
Is spice the same as fake weed?
Yes. Spice, K2, fake weed and laced weed all describe plant material carrying a synthetic cannabinoid. Fake hash is the same trick applied to resin.
Will the reagent tell me which synthetic is in there?
No. It tells you whether a real cannabinoid is present at all. Naming one specific synthetic is a laboratory question.
Can I see it or smell it?
No. It is sprayed on from solution and dries invisibly, so appearance and smell tell you nothing.
What does it mean if no colour comes at all?
On material sold as cannabis, that is the warning. No cannabinoid means it is not cannabis.
Are HHC and THCP the same thing?
No. Those are cannabinoids and they react. The substances on this page do not.
This article does not encourage the use of psychoactive substances and does not replace medical advice.