The Mocarz Wave
The market goes underground and the chemistry shifts faster than the lists can follow. A new legal category — the "new psychoactive substance" — is created in 2015, the same summer a synthetic-cannabinoid blend called "Mocarz" puts hundreds in hospital within days.
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3 moments in this segment.
- — July 2015 — the "new psychoactive substance" is born in law. A 2015 amendment introduces the legal term "new psychoactive substance" (NPS) and, for the first time, a list of banned NPS set by ministerial regulation rather than primary law — letting the state add substances far faster. It criminalises supply offences and raises administrative penalties.
- — July 2015 — the "Mocarz" poisoning wave. An outbreak of intoxications sweeps Poland after people smoke a synthetic-cannabinoid herbal blend branded "Mocarz." More than 200 people are hospitalised within days; the compound MDMB-CHMICA is later identified as the main cause. 2015 becomes the record year for NPS intoxications in Poland.
- — Watch — "Mocarz" reaps its harvest (TVP Info). A TVP Info news report from the height of the July 2015 outbreak: hundreds of people poisoned across Poland by the synthetic-cannabinoid blend "Mocarz."
