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Beshear signs emergency regulation to make synthetic marijuana Schedule 1
news@jessaminejournal.comGov.Steve Beshear emergency regulations last week to place newly identified synthetic marijuana under Schedule 1 of the Kentucky Controlled Substances Act. The action represents the first time synthetic substances have been banned by administrative...Tags: Justice System, Judges, Lawyers, Litigation and Regulation, Crime, Law and Justice
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Second man charged in Clark County tobacco store raid
The owner of Discount Tobacco wasn’t the only one charged from last week’s raid. According to court documents, state police also charged the person who admitted to delivering the synthetic drugs to the Winchester store. On Thursday, Kentucky...
Tags: Prosecution, Trials, Casino and Gambling Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Court Preliminary
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Synthetic marijuana seized at Lancaster gas station
smojica@amnews.comLANCASTER — State and local officials seized 62 packets of suspected synthetic marijuana from a Lancaster gas station on Thursday night. Usman “John” Muhammad Chapra, 28, of Lexington, was arrested at the Shell gas station at 201...Tags: Bath Salt Drugs, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Medical Procedures and Tests, Methamphetamine (drug), PCP
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Mercer County Fiscal Court bans synthetic marijuana
smojica@amnews.comHARRODSBURG — Mercer County has joined a growing number of county and city governments in Kentucky that are banning synthetic drugs. Mercer Fiscal Court passed the second reading and adoption Tuesday of an ordinance banning the possession or sale...Tags: Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Drugs and Medicines
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It takes a village to solve the drug problem
The Winchester SunLast year, Clark County officials responded to 20 overdose deaths. Those are 20 lives that could have been saved. And while it’s the duty of local law enforcement to catch the bad guys so they can hopefully be punished, it’s society’s...Tags: Health, Substance Abuse, Behavioral Conditions, Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice
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Fiscal Court joins other counties in passing synthetic drug ordinance
By Michael Broihier Tuesday morning the Lincoln County Fiscal Court held a special-called meeting to hear the first reading of an ordinance designed to stop the sale of synthetic drugs in the county. Entitled an “Ordinance prohibiting the...Tags: Justice System, Judges, Lawyers, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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Nicholasville commission bans synthetic drugs
mmoore@jessaminejournal.comThe Nicholasville City Commission conference room was a sea of blue Monday night, Feb. 27, as 25 East Jessamine High School D.A.R.E. role models turned out in support of the second reading of ordinance 829-2012, which bans the possession or sale of AM...Tags: Billy King, Prisons, Punishment
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Local authorities examining 'legal weed'
Authorities in Clark County are cracking down on local stores that carry increasingly popular products known as “legal weed.”
Described in Kentucky statutes as synthetic cannabis, these are psychoactive herbal and chemical products that...Tags: YouTube, Lungs and Airways, Health, Substance Abuse, Media Industry
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Springfield, Kirbyville men charged with K2 conspiracy
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man and a Kirbyville, Mo., man were charged in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, China, Law Enforcement, Business, Government Postal Delivery
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Judge denies request to dismiss local synthetic-drug case
Ilan Fedida's defense attorney argued the federal charges filed against her client for allegedly making synthetic marijuana in Volusia County should be dismissed because the law being used is vague and unconstitutional. But an Orlando federal judge...
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Synthetic marijuana among top three substances abused by high schoolers
Synthetic marijuana ranked in the top three substances abused by the nation's high school students in 2012, according to a new report compiled by the Center for Substance Abuse Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. The drug -- herbs...
Tags: Education, Bath Salt Drugs, Barack Obama, University of Maryland, College Park, Substance Abuse
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'Fruit jar' K2 lab in Eureka Springs was new sight in Arkansas
sgrant@ky3.comEUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. -- Besides producing an instantly addictive drug, methamphetamine labs are time bombs that can kill with fumes and flames. A first-of-its-kind drug lab was recently discovered here in northwest Arkansas. What was fizzing and...Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Crime, Law and Justice, Drug Trafficking
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