Lawmakers, health and school officials, and law enforcement officers hope to have a bill ready next week for the state Legislature to ban the drug Spice in Arizona.
Joranda Montano, director of prevention with Community Bridges, a Mesa-based substance abuse treatment and prevention agency, is on the East Valley Spice Task Force. The task force and other groups are working together to prepare a bill, she told the Tribune.
"Our goal is to have it on the floor on the first day and do an emergency ban so it doesn't have to go though the 90-day waiting period," she said. The Legislature opens on Monday.
Spice is synthetic marijuana also known as "k2." The federal government put out a temporary, emergency ban on the five substances that make up Spice late last month, but Montano said a state ban would allow state law enforcement to help in getting rid of Spice.
She also said Spice makers have created a new blend of chemicals and marked it as Spice. Lawmakers hope to craft a separate bill that would outlaw synthetic drugs like Spice without the ban being tied to specific chemicals.
anewday23 posted at 7:37 am on Fri, Jan 28, 2011.
It is blatantly obvious that prohibition just doesn't work. K2 herb has survived all these bans thus far. If people want to buy k2 smoke, it looks like they are going to have no problems doing it as there are places like, http://www.k2incense.org that have k2 incense products that aren't restricted by any current bans. I think our founding fathers would be appalled by how The Constitution is being stomped on. Let us have more respect for our individual liberties and take more personal responsibility. Parent your children, stop looking to Mommy Government to do it for you with all these ineffective and oppressive laws.
karmajolie posted at 7:31 am on Tue, Sep 20, 2011.
Lawmakers are in the process of closing any loopholes that currently exist with laws pertaining to some herbal incense products, but there efforts will prove to be fruitless in the end. The prohibition of marijuana has created this demand for legal marijuana alternatives. A rather prosperous niche that will be tapped into for as long as marijuana continues to be illegal. There are many places one may still buy k2 incense and according to the vendors, like http://www.buyherbalincense.com the k2 herb products they sell are legal everywhere.
Lawmakers are in the process of closing any loopholes that currently exist with laws pertaining to some herbal incense products, but there efforts will prove to be fruitless in the end. The prohibition of marijuana has created this demand for legal marijuana alternatives. A rather prosperous niche that will be tapped into for as long as marijuana continues to be illegal. There are many places one may still buy k2 incense and according to the vendors, like http://www.buyherbalincense.com the k2 herb products they sell are legal everywhere.