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Synthetic Marijuana: Chicago Police Seize 100 Pounds Of Banned Substance In Raid

Chicago police say the pounds of synthetic marijuana and paraphernalia seized from a Northwest Side warehouse Friday was bound for the streets and marketed directly at children. A task force that monitors possible drug shipments alerted Chicago police Friday that a 64-pound package containing banned substances could be bound for Chicago, and the CPD obtained a warrant to search the ... Read More »

Troubleshooter: Cops can’t stop store from selling spice

CLARKSVILLE, IN (WAVE) – A dangerous drug is being sold right out in the open right in the heart of Kentuckiana. The WAVE 3 Troubleshooter Department went undercover to expose how one local business is getting away with it and why police have not been able to stop it. Business is booming at one of southern Indiana’s hottest new locations, ... Read More »

Attention All Readers – You Must Know

First i would like to thank each and every reader that has made our blog one of the largest if not the largest for herbal incense and bath salt reviews and news. I have had so many emails these past 2 months asking me if you can buy herbal incense products from me. I just dont have time to email ... Read More »

Synthetic Drug Ring In Allentown Busted By DEA

Thats right 15 people were arrested in bust of alleged synthetic drugs operation run from Allentown warehouse. NORRISTOWN, Montgomery County — The inventory in an old east Allentown warehouse was a drug user’s paradise: rows and rows of colorful glass smoking bongs, boxes holding thousands of grinders and scales, hundreds of rolling papers and about $200,000. For store owners in ... Read More »

Health Department regulation will make it a violation to buy, sell or possess synthetic drugs like bath salts and fake marijuana

ALBANY — State and local law enforcement would have new power to fight the growing problem of designer drugs and fake pot under a new regulation set to be announced by Gov. Cuomo. The Health Department regulation, to be unveiled Tuesday, will make it a violation to sell, distribute, or possess synthetic drugs like bath salts and fake pot. Violators ... Read More »

ICE participates in nationwide synthetic drug takedown

ICE participates in nationwide synthetic drug takedown   WASHINGTON – More than 90 individuals were arrested and approximately five million packets of finished designer synthetic drugs were seized in the first-ever nationwide law enforcement action against the synthetic designer drug industry responsible for the production and sale of synthetic drugs that are often marketed as bath salts, Spice, incense, or ... Read More »

Bath salt incident draws police to Taunton Burger King

Taunton — Police say an incident over the weekend at a local fast food restaurant illustrates the growing menace of so-called bath salts. The synthetic designer drug, when smoked, snorted or injected, provides a cocaine or amphetamine-like intoxication that can cause hallucinations and paranoia. Previously popular in Europe, the drug is sometimes sold domestically “under the counter” by unscrupulous convenience ... Read More »

‘You sold my son bath salts. I’ll kill you’: Furious father smashes up shop that sold boy legal drugs which left him in hospital

A mother was charged with trespassing two weeks ago after she started shouting at staff in a shop that sold ‘bath salts’ These drugs can be sold legally in the US as long as they are not marked for human consumption In high doses, the chemicals can cause violent behaviour and terrifying hallucinations into a rage and smashed up a ... Read More »

Idaho among states involved in nationwide “spice” bust

BOISE — A federal grand jury has indicted five people on charges related to synthetic drugs such as “spice” after searches at several locations in the Magic Valley and in the Portland area. Four of the defendants are from Twin Falls, while another man is from Tigard, Oregon. They’re charged with conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance analogue. Those arrested ... Read More »

Teens and Drugs – K2 and Spice are Banned, but What Fix is Next?

  “Drug du jour K2 is now illegal in Michigan. But that doesn’t mean parents can rest easy. What’s at the heart of teen drug use? And what can families and communities do?”   Nearly two years ago, Bill Miskokomon began noticing a dramatic shift in his 16-year-old son’s personality. “He was not the kid I knew at all,” the ... Read More »

The battle against bath salts

People are inventing so many new, legal ways to get high that lawmakers can’t keep up. So law enforcers are taking new steps to target these synthetic drugs. Those steps include coordinated raids. The latest was Wednesday, when federal agents arrested more than 90 people in a nationwide sweep of synthetic drug producers, distributors and retailers — including a number ... Read More »

The challenges of synthetic marijuana

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Monday afternoon the Contact 5 Investigators were undercover, inside a Martin County beverage shop.  We were hunting for synthetic marijuana. “He would do anything to get his hands on it,” explained a local mother who asked us not to reveal her identity to protect her son. Her interview with the Contact 5 Investigators is the ... Read More »

DEA Cracks Down on Synthetic Designer Drugs

The Drug Enforcement Agency has seized more than $36 million in cash and arrested nearly 100 people in a nationwide crackdown on synthetic designer drugs. The drugs, with names like K2, Spice, and Bath Salts are among the newest drugs of choice in cities across the United States. DEA agent James Burns said, “This stuff, in the DEA’s eyes, is ... Read More »

Synthetic marijuana finds a following among the young, old alike

Synthetic, designer drugs were just starting to make waves in Jefferson Parish last fall when Lt. John Ladd, a detective with the Sheriff’s Office narcotics division, visited the hospital rooms of two Metairie teenagers hospitalized after smoking man-made marijuana. One 14-year-old girl went into immediate cardiac arrest after taking a toke and had to be resuscitated at East Jefferson General Hospital in ... Read More »

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