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SPICE IS NOT NICE
On June 20, 2012, my son Adam Hernandez, passed away. He had served in the Navy for 8 years and was planning on re-enlisting. He died because he had been smoking a synthetic marijuana called spice.
The Navy recognizes that they are having problems with sailors smoking this "legal" marijuana and put out a video last summer warning about the dangers of this drug. The side effects are devastating. You can experience heart attacks, strokes, psychosis, kidney failure, exaggerated thoughts of suicide and so much more. The ingredients in spice are hard to detect so many turn to spice because it will give a false negative on a drug test.
I learned all that I could about spice and have made it my life's mission to educate as many people as I can so that this doesn't happen again. I refuse to let my son's death be in vain. I have created a website, www.spiceisnotnice.org I encourage you to please, please view it and share with others
Ruth Rivas
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Permalink Reply by Angie on
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FYI...Spice is illegal for use by anyone in the military and many states have outlawed it. Also the military has updated their drug testing and can now test for spice
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Yes, Angie you are right. It is illegal for all military to smoke spice however that doesn't mean that they wont still do it. And yes, they have made a test for spice. However, the chemicals used to make it are always changing so when the test kit for spice tests for chemicals ABC, and the sailor smoked FDE, then the test will give a false negative. Testing for spice is like trying to shoot a moving target. There is no one perfect test. The Redwood Toxicology Laboratory can only test for 19 cannabinoids. There are over 100 different kinds.
I am hoping to bring awareness to this problem. Kids think they are invincible. They are not.
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Yes the new thing now is that they are using the "bath salts" or soaking tampons in vodka and sticking them up there ho ha
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so sorry to hear that.....I pray you can find some peace sounds like a great idea for the website.
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Please be sure to view it. Share with others. Not enough people know about it. Please.
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Permalink Reply by Saipan on
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I am so sorry for you loss. A dear friend of ours was the MA1 (now MAC but no longer there) at the hospital at the duty station my husband was at previously and he had the misfortune of being called too many times to help detain a spice-high Sailor and help get them to the hospital. Thank you for helping get the word out.
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Permalink Reply by Anna68 on
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I am so sorry for your lost, but it is great that you have this campaign to educate others on this drug. Hoping that others take this teaching and pass it on. Spice, yes is a drug. I see that it lingers in prison too and when the prisoners are caught with it, they get punished for it or even stay longer in their sentencing.
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