RESPONSIBILITY FOR DISTRIBUTION OF SMOKING MIXTURES, SO-CALLED “SPICES”

What are smoking mixtures?

Initially, what is now called spice was sold legally. Manufacturers of the drug stated that it contained harmless plants - Hawaiian rose, fortune teller sage, etc. But after a thorough examination of these mixtures, it turned out that psychoactive substances were added to them, which are strictly prohibited by the legislation of a number of countries.

The spice production process itself was put on an industrial basis. Not only active ingredients were added to the composition, but also ballast ones, for cover. Also, the formula of the drug itself was previously unknown, which indicates that it was developed by specialists in the field of chemistry. The form of release of the drug has also changed over time. Today it exists not only in the form of smoking mixtures, but also in the form of incense, bath salts and seasonings.

Punishment for spreading spice

Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for criminal liability for the production and sale of narcotic and psychotropic substances, including spice.

For distributing spice in a small amount, the offender faces imprisonment for a term of 4 to 8 years, with or without restriction of freedom for a term of up to 1 year.

If the distribution was carried out via the Internet and the media, the convicted person is subject to imprisonment for a term of 5 to 12 years. In addition to this punishment, the court may decide to restrict freedom for a period of up to 1 year and impose a fine of up to 500 thousand rubles or the salary of the convicted person for a period of up to 3 years.

The sale of spice in a significant amount is punishable by imprisonment from 8 to 15 years. A fine of up to 500 thousand rubles or in the amount of the offender’s income for a period of up to 3 years, and imprisonment for up to 2 years may also be imposed.

For the sale of spice carried out by an organized group, as well as for the sale on a large scale, those convicted face imprisonment for a term of 10 to 20 years. The court may rule on a ban on holding certain positions for a period of 20 years and impose a fine of up to one million rubles or in the amount of the convicted person’s income for a period of up to 5 years.

The sale of narcotic substances on an especially large scale is punishable by imprisonment for a term of 15 to 20 years or life imprisonment. At the same time, a fine of up to 1 million rubles or the amount of the convicted person’s income for a period of up to 5 years may be imposed.

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Signs of use and effects on the body

The risk group in the case of spice is young people aged 14 to 25 years. They are not always aware of the consequences of using these substances. The fact of use can be established by the following signs:

• Chaotic and unnatural movements of the limbs.
• Inappropriate reactions to the interlocutor’s address.
• Red eyes.
• Hallucinations and self-talk.
• Short-term memory loss.
• Inability to control one's own actions.

However, if these signs disappear after the dose of spice ends, then the long-term consequences of its use can cause irreparable harm to the body.

Among the main consequences:

• Disorders of the cardiovascular system.
• Liver destruction.
• Disruption of the brain and central nervous system.
• Intestinal spasms.
• Chronic laryngitis.
• Lack of appetite.
• Impotence and infertility.

During a survey of people who used this drug, its effect on most human organs was proven, as well as the fact of addiction to spice.

Term for spice according to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

Despite the fact that there is no criminal penalty for using spice, the offender may be convicted under other articles. In particular, in Russia the following are considered criminal offenses: storage, transportation, and production of narcotic substances. Thus, for possession of spice, a person can be subject to a fairly severe punishment in the form of imprisonment. This is regulated by Article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

In accordance with the Criminal Code, for the illegal acquisition, storage, transportation of spice in a significant amount, one of the following penalties is applied to the offender:

• a fine of up to 40 thousand rubles or in the amount of a person’s income for a period of up to 3 months;

• compulsory work lasting up to 480 hours.
• correctional labor for up to 2 years;
• restriction of freedom for up to 3 years;
• imprisonment for up to 3 years.

For transportation and storage of spice in a significant amount, the offender faces imprisonment from 3 to 10 years. The court may also impose a fine of up to 500 thousand rubles or the amount of the convicted person’s income for three years, and also make a decision on restriction of freedom for up to 1 year.

For illegal acquisition, storage, or transportation of spice in a particularly large amount, the convicted person faces imprisonment for a term of 10 to 15 years. In addition to this punishment, a fine of up to 500 thousand rubles or in the amount of a person’s income for a period of up to 3 years may be imposed. The court may also decide to restrict freedom for up to one and a half years.

Is it possible to avoid responsibility?

It is impossible to avoid punishment for the distribution of spice under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. This is only possible for drug users. Article No. 6.9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation specifies specific conditions for exemption from liability:

• The detainee himself voluntarily sought help from medical institutions, which confirmed his drug addiction. If he agrees to rehabilitation, he may be released from liability.
• The detainee is under 18 years of age and is ready to voluntarily seek medical help.

The problem of the spread of spice and other drugs requires active action to combat drug distributors. Therefore, responsibility is being tightened and changes in the chemical composition of the spices themselves are being monitored, adding new compounds to the list of prohibited ones.

Caught with spice - what's the danger?

To date, there is no criminal liability for the use of spice. However, this does not mean that the offender will not be punished. Firstly, a person may be brought to administrative responsibility. In accordance with Article 6.9. Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation for the use of smoking mixtures, the offender faces an administrative fine in the amount of 4 to 5 thousand rubles or administrative arrest for up to 15 days.

The same punishment threatens a person who refuses to undergo a medical examination for drug intoxication at the request of an authorized official, if the latter has sufficient grounds to suspect the detainee of using narcotic and psychotropic substances. If a foreigner is caught using spice, in addition to the above punishment, he will face forced deportation from the Russian Federation.

She cut off the head of the baby she had been caring for for three years.

Experts believe that spice was the cause of another high-profile murder: the nanny of a four-year-old Muscovite, Tajik Gulchekhra Bobokulova, killed and beheaded the baby, then set the apartment on fire and, dressed in a black hijab, went to the metro. The police noticed her and asked her to show her documents. In response to this, she pulled the girl’s head out of her bag and began shouting “Alah Akbar.”

During the investigation, it turned out that the 38-year-old nanny was mentally ill, but she was undergoing treatment; outwardly it was not easy to suspect her of being mentally ill. It also turned out that Bobokulova was under the influence of drugs at the time of the crime. Psychiatrist-narcologist Alexander Krylasov, in an interview with the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, explained what drugs could so strongly and rapidly affect the behavior of a usually calm woman. “She could have been pumped full of spice and programmed to do the things she did. There are drugs that you just need to add to tea to blow your mind away for a long time,” the doctor said.

“My children will forever remain angels”

The murder that occurred in Podolsk near Moscow in October 2015 is very reminiscent of the case of FSB Lieutenant Colonel Ignatiev. On October 18, 30-year-old Dmitry Milovanov killed his young children - a 4-year-old son and a 9-month-old daughter, and tried to kill his wife. The outbreak of aggression happened suddenly - during the most ordinary family evening. Dmitry grabbed a knife and inflicted numerous wounds, first on his son, then on the baby. He tried to stab his wife, but he was stopped by his nephew, who was also in the apartment at that time.

According to neighbors, the family was prosperous; they had recently returned to the Moscow region from Thailand, where they had lived for the last two years. Why the man attacked the family is unclear to them. “Perhaps he smoked something the day before, maybe he brought it from Thailand, or maybe he bought it here. You know, they say that such atrocities are committed under spice,” the Milovanovs’ neighbors voiced their versions to the press.

Spice drug

Also in 2008, spice could be purchased legally - almost every tobacco store had a separate display case for smoking mixtures, as well as various accessories for them. The drug has claimed and continues to claim many lives, even after it was officially included in the list of prohibited substances.

Spice is quite cheap, and one “portion” lasts for a long time. This is why smoking mixtures are popular among teenagers. Spice is not harmless, it is a real drug with a powerful addiction and harmful effects on the body.

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What are spices?

The synthetic drug spice is a smoking mixture of herbs soaked in a narcotic substance similar to plant cannabinoids. In terms of the degree of addiction and impact on the body, the artificial analogue is many times superior to marijuana. Ten years ago, such tobacco was made on a natural basis; today the drug contains only artificial narcotic substances.

Spice composition

If previously spice included various herbs, for example, sage or elderberry, today the mixture can contain ordinary chamomile or tobacco powder, saturated with drugs of unknown origin. The recipe is constantly changing, so it is almost impossible to predict the body's reaction.

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Effect of spice: effect on the body

Like other drugs, spice causes the following effects:

• A surge of strength and good mood.
• The ability to communicate and get to know each other without embarrassment.
• Extraordinary love for everyone around.
• Increased sensations, particularly sexual ones.

The high from spice does not last long - after just a couple of hours, a joyful, energetic person suddenly becomes withdrawn, depressed and powerless. Narcologists compare spice addicts to a battery-powered toy—under the influence of the substance, they move, dance, and life is in full swing. But as soon as the “charging” ends, the person stops abruptly.

Properties of the drug spice

Spice can be described as the most unpredictable drug. Since the exact composition is known only to the manufacturers, it is very easy to overdose. In addition, addiction occurs quickly - after just a couple of “smoke breaks” a person cannot imagine life without this mixture.

Why is spice dangerous?

In addition to being harmful to health, spice also has an extremely negative effect on your mental state. A very large percentage of people, under the influence of hallucinations and persecutory delusions, commit suicide. No less number of drug addicts commit crimes such as murder or causing grievous bodily harm.

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They threw their severed heads and laughed

An equally terrible incident occurred in one of the cities of the Sverdlovsk region at the beginning of September last year. On the outskirts of Nizhnyaya Tura, children discovered a terrible discovery: black plastic bags containing parts of a human body. The remaining parts were found by the police - in the shower stall of one of the apartments of a nearby building. The body was beheaded.

While the police were identifying him, a video from the crime scene was spreading across the Internet: two young men dismembered a third man, cut off his head and laughed as they threw it around in a blood-stained shower stall. “This is someone without a head,” says one to the other, pointing to the lying body.

As the investigation found out, the murdered man was 34-year-old local resident Oleg. The killers are two young men from Nizhny Novgorod. in Oleg's apartment - they drank alcohol and smoked spice. “There was a disagreement between them; during the quarrel, one hit the other with a knife, hit the carotid artery, he bled to death and died. The other two decided to dismember him and take his body outside. Since they were in an inadequate state after smoking spice, they decided to film everything that was happening and post the video on YouTube,” investigators commented on the actions of the criminals.

The killers have been identified. It turned out that before this they were not such good boys: in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the young people managed to commit several crimes, but these were mainly petty thefts. It didn't come down to "merry murder".

"This is the highest, highest relaxation"

Yesterday's bloody (really bloody: according to the schoolchildren who were taken out of the building, there were drops of blood every four meters on all three floors) events in Perm could also have been provoked by drugs. A few hours after the teenagers were detained, a video appeared online in which Lev B., the organizer of the attack, uses drugs on camera, calling it “the highest, highest recreation.”

According to one of the accounts on the social network VKontakte, this is a “designer” drug α-PVP. “Side effects can be serious and life-threatening, and deaths have been reported. Some researchers have found such psychopathological effects in users as psychotic behavior, delusions and hallucinations and self-harm, confusion, anhedonia, anorexia, panic attacks,” the author of the post quotes an article from Wikipedia on this substance.

Timofey Zhukov:

— The most dangerous drugs today are synthetic JWH. From 1 g of this substance you can produce up to 60 g of the mixture: drug traffickers take ordinary chamomile and soak it in this drug. Spice obtained this way can drive several people to madness. Especially teenagers with a still unstable psyche. According to the vice-president of Drug-Free City, spice is now rapidly spreading among teenagers. “We have recently received information on 4 schools in Yekaterinburg where there is widespread drug use,” notes Timofey. According to him, children of wealthy parents are often prone to drug use: all four schools that Timofey is talking about are elite, and the children of officials and businessmen study in them.

Timofey Zhukov:

“For there to be only one drug addict at school, unfortunately, that doesn’t happen.” Teenagers need company, and teenage drug addicts even more so. According to our calculations, in a year one drug addict gets at least 30 more people hooked on this crap. In Yekaterinburg, over the past year, the use and distribution of narcotic substances among minors has increased 11 times! The reaction of many school principals is incomprehensible - they prefer to remain silent.

As Timofey reported, on January 17, representatives of the Foundation will meet with the regional Minister of Education, Yuri Biktuganov, to discuss the problem of the spread of drug addiction among schoolchildren and look for ways to solve it. “If any of the city officials are ready to participate, we will be glad,” Timofey Zhukov wrote on his Facebook account. “True, none of the officials expressed their interest in this,” he said in a personal conversation with a 66.RU correspondent. “They’re afraid or something.”

Spice addiction

Dependence develops quite quickly - after just a couple of uses. At the same time, the addict tries to achieve the pleasure that was the first time he smoked spice. However, such euphoria no longer occurs even with an increase in dose, but the body is now completely dependent on the drug. Even when the physiological craving is removed, the psychological craving remains.

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Article prepared by an expert

Terekhova Anna Vladimirovna

psychologist-consultant on socio-psychological work with addicted clients and their families. More than 9 years of experience.

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2 comments on “Spice: what is it, the effect and consequences of use”

1. Vasya:

   March 5, 2022 at 00:17

   experimentation. Beginning drug addicts experiment with taking drugs of various groups, thus searching for the one that is most suitable for them. direct use in society. Spice and similar drugs are used in groups of like-minded people.

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2. Dmitriy:

   March 27, 2022 at 00:20

   Spice has a detrimental effect on the body. As a result of Spice consumption, blood pressure increases, memory, attention and mental abilities in general deteriorate. There are frequent cases of unreasonable panic after consuming Spice. The effect of this smoking mixture is in many ways similar to the effect of hard drugs. And the worst thing is that Spice can be addictive, accompanied by so-called withdrawal symptoms. When talking about the harmlessness of Spice, people are deceiving themselves. Smoking Spice has great harm on the human body, especially young people.

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