The DEA has taken emergency action to outlaw chemicals used to make synthetic marijuana, meaning it will be illegal to possess or sell them in the U.S. for at least one year, until further action is taken.
The chemicals used to make "fake pot" products, also known as K2, will be studied by the Department of Health and Human Services to determine whether the chemicals and the products should be permanently controlled, the DEA said.
"Over the past year, smokable herbal blends marketed as being 'legal' and providing a marijuana-like high, have become increasingly popular, particularly among teens and young adults," the DEA said in a statement."These products consist of plant material that has been coated with research chemicals that mimic THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, and are sold at a variety of retail outlets, in head shops and over the Internet. These chemicals, however, have not been approved by the FDA for human consumption, and there is no oversight of the manufacturing process."
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oxycontin is safe, but K2 isn't... wow.
People are smoking anway. You cant repeat you cant stop it. Clean it up tax it and make room in jail for the real crimminals not some pot heads. Stop wasting our tax money on pot. Bust meath, coke real drugs.
Only 3 hours to go on the East-side!
Great. More drug lords goin pop up cause of stupid DEA
These manufactured substances the ill-informed might mistake for marijuana should be illegal, just as moonshine that has potential to blind a person should be illegal.
Does this also include Marinol?
Someone needs to get DuMmmm-ass high!
And while they are at it, get the person laid finally!
Welcome to the new, unimproved Gestapo.
MOST NATURAL STORES ARE GOING TO FILE FOR BANKCRUPTCY !!!
God forbid the people get their hands on something that makes them feel good. Better outlaw it.
This is an absurdity in a FREE SOCIETY. Why are we allowing the DEA to exist? What people do with their body IS THEIR RIGHT UNDER GOD.
This issue isn't about chemicals ...
The issue is about the Drug ENFORCEMENT Agency having the ability to legislate new laws.
Doesn't anyone else see a problem with this? Doesn't anyone else see how allowing the executive branch the ability to over rule the legislative branch can have self-serving consequences. "We need to arrest more people ... well let's write a law that allows us to do so!" Bye bye check and balances.
Why are they banning? What studies have they done?
Because they CAN.
A sad day in American as we watch the legislative process thrown out the window.
Enforcement agencies making the laws that they can enforce. This is bad for America.
When will America realize that this country belongs to all of us and not just the buggering sodomites that have an office in the Federal building. They don't make the laws, we do. Turn off the TV, get off your butt and help us take back our country. Christ Almighty! Everybody is complaining but nobody is willing to do anything. The country belongs to ALL of us, we as a group can decide what laws we will ive under, not the laws set down by some bunch of pushy fundamentalist morons in poorly fitted polyester suits.