DEA Shows Major Culture Shift in How It Handles Drug Bans After Kratom Reversal
The DEA appears to be undergoing a major shift in how it handles the war on drugs.
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DEA Backs Off Kratom Ban – for Now – After Mounting Public Pressure
Under mounting public pressure, the DEA has delayed the ban on Kratom, a Southeast Asian tree leaf that is said to be helpful for pain relief and heroin abuse.
The Gun Issue: If Dead Kids Doesn’t Do it, What Will?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s nauseating to say the least to see how spineless our Washington lawmakers are, how fearful they are when it comes to standing up to the NRA and the people who insist that universal background checks are too intrusive and assault weapons are necessary to own. The Newtown shootings should…
DEA Extends Ban on “Fake Pot” Products
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA is continuing to go after “fake pot.” The agency announced earlier this week on its website that it was extending by six months a ban on five chemicals used to make fake pot, which have been sold at retail outlets and head shops. The ban, under the DEA’s emergency…
Ex-Trashman Makes Killing on Pot-Like High Product
By Justin Blum Bloomberg Derek Williams was working as a trash-truck driver when his cousin told him about K2, a product made from plant materials and chemicals that provided a legal, marijuana-like high. Williams saw his ticket out of the residential rubbish business: Make a better blend. He studied compounds that mimic the effects of…
Jurisdictions Move to Ban K-2 “Spice” Drug
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The latest danger to youth is a concoction called K-2, packets of herbs that can be smoked like marijuana to get high, USA Today reports. Reporter Donna Leinwand writes that almost a dozen states and multiple cities have passed bans or are considering passing ones of the product known as “Spice”…