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youths hospitalized after smoking herbal incense

If trying to keep your son or daughter away from drugs wasn’t already hard enough, Fort St. John RCMP are now warning parents about a new way some area youth have tried in order to get high. Corporal Jodi Shelkie says some youth in the Fort St. John area have tried smoking incense in an attempt to get the same ... 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 »

Arkansas ER’s Seeing More People With Synthetic Marijuana Side Effects

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — While Arkansas bans another form of synthetic marijuana, called “XLR11,” ER doctors say it’s not slowing users down. It’s a little package that packs a big punch. “People are seeing things, they’re hearing things, they want to kill themselves, they want to kill other people. It’s just really messed up,” says Dr. Jim Holden, who works in ... Read More »

Recreational drugs come in many forms

MOUNT VERNON — They’re called recreational drugs, but the term defies logic. They come in all forms, and go by many names. Pills, powders, liquids, crystals, crushed leaves and gases are smoked, sniffed, swallowed or injected. Users may want to get up or get down, or merely escape their problems for awhile. They do it with Spice and Special K, ... Read More »

Bath Salts Problem Grows, Drug Counselors Say They Have Their Hands Full

  The drug landscape is changing all across the country.  No longer are people just relying on what comes from the Earth. They’re smoking, inhaling and shooting what chemists make in the lab.  They’re producing marijuana or bath salts. There was a major bust around the country by the Drug Enforcement Agency.  Investigators found $59 million worth of synthetic marijuana ... 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 is ‘Dangerous Stuff’

In the wake of raids on a dozen Washington County businesses selling the drug, Dr. Neil Capretto of Gateway Rehabilitation said the problem is ‘everywhere.’   Dr. Neil Capretto said one patient who came intoGateway Rehabilitation called the synthetic pot he was smoking “like marijuana on steroids.” In the wake of a raid of a dozen Washington County businesses that were ... Read More »

USE OF SYNTHETIC DRUGS IS CUTTING SHORT CAREERS AND LIVES

As the surgeon general of the Navy, I am in awe of the young sailors and Marines who serve so gallantly. My most solemn days are those when I see a shipmate fall from wounds or illness. I also have the solemn task on occasion to review the case of a vibrant sailor or Marine who played Russian roulette with ... Read More »

Synthetic drug use up among teens, counselor warns

The number of teens Todd Hoffe works with who use plant food dropped slightly after the drug and other synthetics were banned last summer. Maybe it was fear of prosecution, or of the powerful hallucinogen itself, the Hiawatha Valley Mental Health Center adolescent counselor said last week. Either way, Hoffe said, within the past month he has noticed a resurgence. ... Read More »

DEA raids smoke shops in Las Cruces, Sunland Park, Alamogordo

LAS CRUCES — Federal and local law enforcement officers raided several smoke shops Wednesday in Las Cruces, as well as one business in Sunland Park, as part of a nationwide investigation into the alleged production and distribution of synthetic drugs. Masked agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency, assisted by LCPD officers, were seen removing several large boxes of evidence from ... Read More »

City joins crusade to ban fake pot

Pompano Beach became the most recent South Florida municipality to curb the sale of “herbal incense,” a designer drug that many are calling synthetic marijuana. The City Commission approved a new ban ordinance on June 26 on second reading. “It was passed with the definition excluding tobacco and food seasonings,” said City Attorney Gordon Linn. However, the devil may be ... Read More »

Drug suspect shot during arrest at Home Depot

UNION GAP, Wash. — A suspect attempting to flee arrest during a drug bust was shot multiple times in the parking lot of the Home Depot store on South First Street, according to police. The man was taken to a local hospital by ambulance. A second man was taken into custody. Yakima police Capt. Rod Light said a federal Drug ... Read More »

Deputies search Hippie Hole, Herbal Connexxion after synthetic drug bust

Seven employees from two Houma businesses are accused of selling synthetic marijuana from their businesses, and deputies began to search the businesses and for the employees Tuesday, a Terrebonne drug task force official said. Undercover agents have been purchasing synthetic marijuana from the Hippie Hole, 238 N. Hollywood Road, and Herbal Connexxion, 6042 W. Park Ave., for the past six ... Read More »

Spice bust nets three drug charges for Burley business owner

The Voice photo by C. Colt Crane It was here at the One Stop Shop on East Main that local law enforcement found “Pep Spice” and paraphernalia that netted Mahest “Mike” Shaw three drug charges.             BURLEY – A May drug bust has netted a Burley man three drug related charges and appears to have thwarted ... Read More »

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