Apparently Missouri lawmakers' state ban on K2 synthetic marijuana wasn't moving fast enough for Pettis County, which just outlawed the synthetic cannabinoid.
Pettis County is now the first place in the nation to ban K2.
The ban was proposed by the county's prosecuting attorney, Jeff Mittelhauser, according to the Sedalia Democrat. Mittelhauser told the County Commission he'd heard of K2 being sold in Pettis for several months, and he'd also heard reports of people in the emergency room unconscious because of the drug.
Oh, man. He's a prosecuting attorney, and he's writing a law he wants to enforce based on second-hand information?
The ban covers the list of active chemical ingredients in K2 that allow it to mimic marijuana. K2 is also sold under the names "Spice" and "Mojo." Scientists discussed the possible research benefits of the active chemicals in last week's Pitch feature, "Fake Reefer Madness."
So now it's a misdemeanor to sell K2 or publicly display it for sale. The first offense is up to 30 days in jail and a fine of up to $500. A second offense could draw 90 days in jail and a $5,000 fine.
It's disturbing how law enforcement is putting in laws they want enforced, instead of letting lawmakers legislate. It's not like the states aren't just going to ban K2 anyway, and, again, based only on the testimony of cops. Is it that our representatives are scared of looking soft on drugs, as Kansas state Sen. David Haley suggests? In the words of Dave Mustaine, "It's still 'We the people,' right?"
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Hmmm. They don't care about the American public in the least. They started banning K2 and other herbal incense products long before they actually started research on any possible side effects they may have. Please don't be fooled into thinking they care about our well-being. If that were so, they would just tear down the corrupt FDA and take out Big Pharma as they are the biggest toxin pushers! Provided there are age restrictions, if someone wants some k2 herb, who are you to tell them that they can't have it? If someone wants to, they will buy k2 smoke whether it's legal or not as that is what happens with anything else that is unjustly and ridiculously prohibited. K2 incense will be no different. Plus, the formulas are constantly changing. http://www.herbalk2incense.com offers several products that are legal all over the world.
Our penal system needs a major overhaul as it is and these petty drug laws aren't helping matters. The authorities will never be able to keep up with k2 incense and the like as it is ever-changing. Loads of places have k2 herb products that aren't forbidden under any current bans. It is bonkers the money and effort they are putting into these bans when apparently people can still legally buy k2 smoke if they want to!
'you all that use it are idiots and loosers'
Organizing thoughts into coherent sentences is hard I suppose.
It's appalling that the law was made without any community input. I really just can not understand why anyone would criminalize marijuana possession but make drinking alcohol perfectly ok. Having been both drunk and high, I'll take high anyday. Having seen people who were high and drunk while myself being sober, I'll take hanging out with the person that's high anyday. At least the person who is high isn't likely to strip naked and tell my neighbors how much he 'loves them'. I've never seen anyone violent or uncontrolled while high. I've never seen anyone addicted to pot. I've never seen anyone lose their family, their friends, their job, and destroy their health from pot.. but damn all you political nay-sayers sure do love those afternoon cocktails don't ya?
First of all,I'd like to point out that the real idiots and loser's are people who have nothing better to do then try to force their oponions onto everyone else. Second of all freedom is indeed what God wants for us. Read your bible, God gave us free will! He wants us to worship him, but he gave us the ability not to, and the ability to make our own decisions whether right or wrong. God loves each and every one of us and that he gave us free will. So unless you can show me where he called forth lightning to the stone and wrote another commandment, voice your opinon, but shove it on everyone else, cause I think his next commandment will be "Thou shall not put words in my mouth!"
Rumor has it someone will be running against our Pettis County PA Mittlehauser. We'll see.
Whether K2 is good or bad I don't know, but real pot is cheaper. Under PA Mittlehauser Pettis County has become a police state. 56% of all convictions result in prison time, whereas the statewide average is something like 26%. He proposed this insane law on a Friday and the following Monday it was nmade a law by 2 people. No public discussion, no input from anyone but him. Mittlehauser is alleged (true) to have done drugs in high school as well as after, and was busted drunk in Warrensburg with an open container and he was PA at the time. Everyone here is scared of him, piss him off and he will BURY YOU. They have their little Cartel here and everyone in the legal system is involved. Google Sedalia Times/Don Waldrep and check that stuff out. It is common knowledge what DW said is true. The PA is up for election but most likely no one will run for PA so we'll be stuck with this insane dickhead for another 4 years. 20 years of his crap is enough. What does it really take to get a Federal Grand Jury to investigate the shenanigans here in Pettis County? Pettis County/Sedalia citizens are for the most part decent people, and we deserve better than this arrogant power drunk asshole dictating our lives.
Smoking anything or using drugs is bad for your health and takes your eyes off God. The only reason anyone would want to legalize anything is to destroy their mind while the seller makes money. Don't fall for the Hippy argument that freedom this and that. Freedom is sobriety and doing right by God. Please think before you support and legalization. Alcohol is there to buy so don't. If you want to destroy your health and put my life at risk, no law will stop you. Let's all be sober and stop being selfish. Pray to God and keep your mind sober so you can help someone.
"he'd also heard reports of people being unconscious because of the drug..."
First of all I'd like to state that all those so called people that were unconscious, where are their reports? I find it odd that their facts on the "Reports" are pretty sketchy! Maybe drinking alcohol and smoking k2 at the same time, but the k2 drug itself as the politicians and law enforcement state simply, "mimics marijuana symptoms..." Weed isn't a new thing ladies and gents, and as long as it's been around I've never seen or heard anyone say they were unconscious using it! You can't even overdose on marijuana, but yet alcohol can give someone an easy ride to get their stomach pumped? It just doesn't seem logical! I've smoked k2 before and it's hard to say that I have ever felt in that state of being explained in the above article. The funny thing is these people (politicians & law enforcement) can sit here and tell us that this k2 can be dangerous, but yet they have their alcohol? Strange how I met someone yesterday who was at GUNPOINT from a MISSOURI SHERIFF because the SHERIFF was DRUNK off hours and pulled this young man over just to harass him. I haven't met a single person that's smoked k2 and has done something that dramatic, mind you everyone I've smoked with has actually experienced the same sensational body high. I'm not saying that these cases weren't possible, but my buddy mentioned above has hard evidence to his report, where's yours? Thanks to our state legislatures and law enforcement, I welcome you to reply!
Sedalia is a dump, all the K2 in the world wouldn't make that place tolerable. Besides, it just makes selling it illegal, so now they buy it somewhere else... Good job Sedalia
Interesting how quickly they can get something accomplished when it's something they really want to do, isn't it? Compared to, say, helping their constituents get good-paying jobs or protecting them from predatory businesses.
The funny part is the suckers who still believe - in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary - that the government is there to help/protect them. If you're a billionaire, that's true. Otherwise, not so much.
"he'd also heard reports of people in the emergency room unconscious because of the drug."
I've also heard reports of people in the emergency room unconscious because of alcohol.
"It's still 'We the people,' right?"
Nope, and it hasn't been for a long time. Now it's "They the Corporations" who have rights and power in America. Voting for "change" obviously doesn't change anything, because 99% of politicians are bought and owned by corporations. "We the people" are completely helpless against them.
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