How Legalizing Organic Drugs Is the Only Way to Win America’s Chemical War with China

The pharmacological difference between natural THC and synthetic cannabinoids like K2 is the difference between a partial agonist and a full agonist. THC, the active compound in cannabis, partially activates the CB1 receptor in your brain. There is a biological ceiling on how activated that receptor can get from natural cannabis. This is why a fatal marijuana overdose is, for all practical purposes, impossible.