There are numerous answers to the question, “What does laced weed look like?” That is to say, laced weed is commonly identifiable by a variety of visual characteristics. Knowing how to spot these strain abnormalities is vitally important to keep yourself and others safe. The following information is your blueprint for identifying laced weed, preventing further harm, and getting the medical assistance you need.
What is Laced Weed?
Laced weed is marijuana that has been tampered with by the infusion of other unnatural drugs or chemicals. These pose a tremendous danger due to the unknown tolerance levels of the infused substances to the user. This includes potential allergic reactions, counteractive bodily responses, and other negative chemical reactions that can occur. These reactions can induce shock, cardiac arrest, and even death.
What are the Noticeable Characteristics of Laced Weed?
As alluded to earlier, laced weed has a plethora of physical and aromatic traits. Here are some of the most commonly identifiable traits of laced weed.
Color Distortion or Physical Abnormalities
While many strains have orange or red spots mingled with green, laced weed distortion is much more prominent and abnormal. Long streaks of discoloration or uncharacteristic color changes are a red flag for laced weed. Thus it is all the more important to consult color charts to distinguish abnormalities from normal strain color deviations.
Aromatic Deviations
Equally important as the question “What does laced weed look like?” is the question of “What does it smell like?” All weed strains are accompanied by a distinct “skunk-like” smell that makes its purity unquestionable. Laced marijuana often has an “off” chemical or oddly distorted stench mingled in with the usual skunk aroma.
Unusual Feeling
This isn’t referring to intuition, but rather how the bud itself feels in your hands. Normal marijuana buds range from slightly to very sticky depending on the potency and strand. Laced weed often feels drier and consists of a powder-like substance that may partially transfer to the touch. This, however, depends on the type of substance laced with marijuana. For example, pill-based substances will manifest themselves in the powder-based feel mentioned. On the other hand, liquid-based drugs laced with weed are often “dipped”, sprayed, or injected with the infused drug. Therefore, this liquid-based lacing will leave the bud feeling damp, wet, or stickier than normal to the touch.
In short, we’ve boiled down the common identifiable lacing factors by answering three questions. These questions are “What does laced weed feel like?”, “What does laced weed look like?”, and “What does laced weed smell like?”. If you still cannot determine whether it is laced after answering those three questions, consult the more accurate testing method mentioned below.
How Do You Test Weed for Lacing?
In some rare cases, you can’t know what laced weed looks like. In those instances, weed test kits are available to detect these abnormalities. Beyond that, these test kits can also identify the specific drug laced with the plant. To ensure an accurate test, following the step-by-step instructions on the test kit verbatim is important. While you may consider a test kit to be over-the-top, it is necessary, considering the ever-growing hazards of modern-day drugs.
Which Drugs Are Commonly Laced with Weed?
Weed lacing is not only an ever-growing problem, it is an ever-increasing danger due to the potency of recent drugs. Knowing the following drugs that are commonly laced with weed will help put these dangers in perspective.
Fentanyl has very rapidly become a very common compound laced with weed. More concerning is the fact that it has claimed more lives than any other drug in a short amount of time. This is due to the staggering fact that a minuscule two millimeters of the substance is enough to kill you. This contributes to the over 55-percent rise in opioid deaths cited by the DEA, with fentanyl being the main driver.
The reason glass or metal may be infused with marijuana is to give it that “crystalized” look to appear more potent. This low-class lacing method is used to drive up the price of otherwise ordinary and less potent strains. The obvious danger with this lacing method is these metals and glass shards can find their way into your body, having fatal consequences.
LSD, most commonly in liquid form, is usually dissolved in fluid like water when transferred to cannabis. This drug magnifies the binding properties of cannabinoid receptors to dangerously high levels. In turn, it creates an exacerbated potency of both the cannabis and LSD effects that can lead to overdose.
This extremely potent opioid, like fentanyl, takes a very small amount to overdose on. That’s what makes this drug, especially when laced with weed, that much more dangerous when it comes to compounding physiological properties.
What are the Dangers of Laced Weed?
Most of the dangers of laced weed have to do with the unknown factors of the user. The following details outline the specific dangers related to these unknown variables.
We’ve danced around this fact in passing, but everybody has different tolerance levels. Tolerance per individual is especially sporadic when the user has never delved into other drugs before. Put simply, what may be considered a minor dose for some, may be fatal for others. Thus, why it is imperative to understand how to spot laced weed to prevent harmful accidental overdoses. Also, the potency of the laced substance can drive up the effects and adverse reactions to said potency.
We’ve danced around this fact in passing, but everybody has different tolerance levels. Tolerance per individual is especially sporadic when the user has never delved into other drugs before. Put simply, what may be considered a minor dose for some, may be fatal for others. Thus, why it is imperative to understand how to spot laced weed to prevent harmful accidental overdoses. Also, the potency of the laced substance can drive up the effects and adverse reactions to said potency.
As equally damaging as an overdose are the unknown allergic reactions some users have to unfamiliar drugs. Most dangerously, these allergic reactions are often unknown until the point of use. These triggered allergies, in turn, have adverse effects on the user up to and including death. If you or anybody you know appears to be having an abnormal reaction to any substance, seek immediate medical assistance.
Our bodies are unique entities that all respond drastically differently to the introduction of foreign agents. Just as each body has a unique tolerance level, they also have unique reactions. Some, for example, may respond to heroin infusion by being so neuro-depressive that they fall asleep. Others may have an unusually accelerated heart rate to the point of a panic attack due to the unknown feeling.
How To Know if You Have a Drug Addiction
Since weed is the most popular recreational legal drug on the market, most users don’t realize they have a problem. Rest assured, you can get addicted to weed just as much as you can any other drug. If any of the following details describe you, get the help you need today.
The old proverb “Your treasure is where your heart is” is the most accurate way to determine if you have a problem. That is to say, what you invest your money in most is what means the most to you. Therefore, if you invest a considerable amount of your paycheck toward any substance, that alone may be your answer.
Drugs don’t just take a lot out of you financially. It takes a lot out of you mentally and physically. There is a saying, “For every high, there is a low.” That rings most true with these drugs that drain you mentally and physically. As a result, your school and work duties often suffer as a consequence. In addition, addiction strugglers unmeaningly allow important priorities to take a backseat to the focus of reaching that next high. These altered priorities known as addiction distortion require professional help to properly realign. Rest assured, you’ll get nothing less than the best assistance from our compassionate experts at Acqua Recovery.
The first and second signs mentioned serve as a trickle-down effect into failing to pay your bills. We all can understandably struggle for different reasons with paying bills at some point. However, if you find yourself struggling to pay bills due to your investments in drug use, seek medical help now. If treatment costs are a concern, we work with approved insurance providers to help pay for the treatment you need.
Many people who continue to use convince themselves they can stop anytime. Are you one of the many who say they can stop, but ultimately find themselves unable to prevent themselves from using? There’s no shame in admitting you have a problem. In fact, admitting a struggle with addiction is the first and most vital step toward achieving complete sobriety. We understand the struggle and are here to help you see you don’t have to be alone in that struggle.
Acqua Recovery Has all the Tools To Overcome Your Struggles
Thankfully, all the answers to your battles with addiction reside in the care of our team of dedicated professionals. Through methodically individualized treatment methods, Acqua Recovery makes your sobriety our number one priority. Reach out to Acqua Recovery to release the burden of your addiction struggles today.
