As local governments and some state governments are banning the chemical substance that is known as a synthetic marijuana, often sold as K2 or Spice, the Polk County Sheriff, Grady Judd of Florida is making good his promise to crack down on stores that sell it. Last week the central Florida sheriff announced more than a dozen arrests over the controversial product that is sold as incense, but is really an inert combination of dried herbs sprayed with the chemical JWH-018 or a similar byproduct.
On Thursday, undercover detectives purchased the products at various outlets and those clerks behind the counter were then arrested and charged with the sale of an imitation controlled substance, a third-degree felony in Florida. Sheriff Judd says the effort is necessary since the product is often sold to children. Legislation is proposed for next year’s session to classify synthetic marijuana as an illegal narcotic.
Meanwhile, one of the reasons for the explosive popularity of the new substance is coming to an end. A company called Norchem in Flagstaff Arizona has now come up with a lab-based test that definitively confirms the presence in the Urine of JWH-018, JWH-019, JWH-073 and JWH-250, the four most commonly seen forms of synthetic marijuana. The test was developed primarily for the criminal justice system including drug courts, probation, parole and treatment centers.
The company was allowed to re-test hundreds of randomly pulled specimens of individuals that are court ordered to not use mind or behavior altering substances and they are claiming they detected the synthetic cannabiniod in over 60% of those samples tested. The specimens that were tested had previously tested negative for drugs of abuse. The company says that the samples that tested positive showed geographic trends of use, mainly in Nevada, Colorado, southern Arizona, Kansas, and southern California
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great, now we are wasting money to arrest people who smoke FAKE weed! and why did they go out of their way to re test piss jars? do they REALLY think a pothead is an automatic danger?
they’re just trying to keep the prisons full
Freedom was a marketing campaign, with 25 percent of the entire worlds prison population right here at home, freedom is lost. Proof in point; this article. It’s time to leave America and move to a FREE country.
Larry
USN, Ret
Disabled Gulf War/Iraqi Freedom/Bosnia/Afgan Vet
there is no free countries, not anymore, and leaving won’t solve a damn thing, we need to fight back. problem is the days of assembling a militia to overthrow governments are gone. which means we are gonna simmer in this cesspool for decades at this rate.
Larry, it sadens me even more to hear about a vet saying we have no freedom and for you to be jsut so right. political views and controls have taken away most of what we called freedom. america is a true shame anymore and this is just the reason. before things got crazy drugs werent so commonly used but now things ae just so far out of hand that people cant cope they need something to cope its pathetic but understandable.
K-2 is an imitation controlled substance?!?!?! Then why isn’t Goody’s powder? Or roll-your-own tobacco? Or Tic-Tacs? Seems like any good lawyer will get this laughed out of court. Of course, we ARE talking about Polk County, FL. Scary.
This is all propaganda to get people scared. They can bust you for whatever they feel like, but making it stick is another story. The supposed DEA ban from Dec 24, 2010 never actually went into effect, either. No one is going to jail for Spice. If Spice is illegal, so are all the pharmecuticals and cooking spices.
exsactly!! a child can reach into the cabnet and pull out many of different thing from cough syrups to simple things like mouth wash and vanilla extracts to get high and drunk but non of these things are banned or illegal hell you dont even have to be 18 to buy them its rediculous
Well it is not a childs decision or choice to have to sit and smell this stuff while their parents are smoking it. This is concidered ok by DCF and police in Florida
I know a guy who smokes K2 and says it’s like LSD. He gets goofy on it.
there is no free countries, not anymore, and leaving won’t solve a damn thing, we need to fight back. problem is the days of assembling a militia to overthrow governments are gone. which means we are gonna simmer in this cesspool for decades at this rate.
Yeehaw consarn goldurn hippies wanna take my great state and turn it into a tee-pee wigwam shanty town. pistol whip the lot of them wee doggy. im just glad i can buy automatic weapons to protect myself from these dangerous drug terrorists The sheriff should be hog tying and dragging their sorry lay-about ass’es all over the county as a lesson to wanna be hipsters smoking their devil weed and raping my women
lol
i wana how many people has been chase down by a pothead comparde to a drunk
www allsafespice com uses a new chemical that is legal in all 50 states. There are hundreds more that do the same thing if they outlaw this one, so don’t expect to see Spice go away any time soon.
this stuff has been the cause of violence and deaths. It causes the heart to explode and can cause those who are under it’s influence to go into fits of rage.
One young man in Georgia killed his girlfriend while on this stuff.
It doesn’t cause a mellow high like marijuana…
These are phoney scare stories. Just likeWhitney Houston was suposedly using K2 just before she died (false). Just like the ‘Bath Salt Cannibal. Coroners report said there were no drugs in his sysem except a little trace of pot. I’ve tried to research any of the medical emergency claims I’ve come across only to be led to a dead end untrue claim. I think these stories are an attempt by the pot dealers who are hurting from the loss of sales.
this is fucking bullshit i heard of a grown ass man going into the hospital because i was smokeing k2 and he jumped up and started to skratch his face and chest come on this is shit ive been smokeing this stuff for 3 years and no bad effects have happend to me maby some coffeing and black flem but thats it
it affect everyone differently then. cuase my man has three different people in him now since hes been smoking this shit.
and no this stuff lets you wind down after a long day at work or if you just wonna chill out so you can get some sleep every body thats has DIED off k2 is full of it and then i heard in tampa fl there were these kids down at a park and one drowned from smokeing k2 they said he just jumped in WTF its called learn to swim fucking children
well this stuff needs to be banned every where and stores need to be busted. this stuff is screwing up my baby daddy mentally. he didnt have a personality disorder till after he smoked this crap for awhile. now hes messed up. dont know what to do then to turn the store in for selling it. hmmm