In SPRINGFIELD, in the State of Montana, Police have reported arresting two women who have yet to be identified as part of there sweep to control synthetic drugs. The bust occurred on Thursday at a local smoke shop on South Campbell Avenue. According to official spokes men of the Springfield police department, police officers served a search warrant to the ... Read More »
Today in Carlsbad a community located in the state of New Mexico, 3 man were indicted with drug possession and trafficking charges. Readers, shop owners and users heed my words do not be as dumb as these three people, selling herbal incense of any kind of synthetics whether its G2, G3 whatever is a big no no, I can pull up countless other stories ... Read More »
In this week’s issue, New Times Broward-Palm Beach (which, like Toke of the Town, is part of Village Voice Media) looks closer at the rise and eventual crack down on the synthetic cannabinoid industry. Over the past three years, manufacturers and retailers of so-called “herbal incenses” have popped up in all 50 states. It quickly became a multibillion-dollar industry built on products that had ... Read More »
The police seized more than $100,000 worth of herbal incense in a raid last month in Missouri. Unlike a lot of the larger raids happening across the country, this one seems to have been done entirely at the local level with no DEA involvement. “A search warrant executed in the 6000 block of Shadow Circle in Osage Beach Sunday resulted ... Read More »
According to an Ohio local television news station, there was a major raid on a local tobacco shop, resulting in large seizures of property. Local law enforcement searched the busy location for synthetic marijuana, and found what they were expecting. “Ashland Police Detectives, Ashland County Sheriff’s Detectives, Loudonville Police and the U.S. Marshal’s Violent Fugitive Task Force raided the Loudonville ... Read More »
One of the very popular Herbal Incense sites out there SomeIncense.com, announced that their site will no longer be accepting new orders. Details are outlined below. To read more, visit their site at: http://someincense.com Attention all customers—————————————————-Due to all the recent warehouses being raided from “Operation Log Jam”, we are currently unable to obtain product and fulfill more orders. All ... Read More »
I'll quickly point out I am not a lawyer or legal expert of any kind. The information used to support my argument is based on a personal interpretation of the Federal Law S.3187, evidence was utilized from various first hand source (commentary, opinions by non-experts). In this post we will be discussing the pro and cons of the legal arguments with regards to whether so-called 4th Generation Synthetic cannabinoids (i.e.: UR-144, 5-fur, 5fakb48, sts-135 ) are in fact legal or not. Read More »
On May 26, 2012 a man was attacked in Miami by another man who bite his face off leaving nothing but his goatee. I know you all heard of this story, because news coverage about it went on for a hardcore 96 hours! Even people in Europe heard about it for pete sake. The media dubbed it the Zombie attack (really loosing grip with reality (the media)), they love this kind of story and tends to run it to its death especially when they can blame the lack thereof of government regulation (blame government) for a drug that was not properly regulated under Schedule I (aka "the money waster section"/ "referee madness"). Read More »
Below you will find a list of all the pending state side laws concerning the control of Bath Salts and Synthetic cannabinoid IL H 1655: Amends the Controlled Substances Act; adds MDPV to the list of Schedule I controlled substances. IL S 1034: Adds certain substituted cathinones to controlled substances schedule I. IL H 5233: Amends the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; sets forth as definition for synthetic drug product; provides that whoever distributes, or possesses with intent to distribute, a synthetic drug product or a drug that is misbranded under the Act is guilty of a Class 2 felony and may be fined an amount not to exceed $100,000 and that a person convicted of a second or subsequent violation is guilty of a Class 1 felony, the fine for which shall not exceed $250,000. Read More »
In our previous post we discussed the bill in detail and gave a link for those interest in reading about it. The federal bill is now active meaning it is illegal to possess/sell/manufacture goods containing the outlined compounds in the bill. We encourage you to trash or use up the product you have had in the past as soon as possible. We strongly encourage all members of the Smoking Blend community to exercise caution when buying from (i call them) kids websites that were designed in three seconds and simply sell you all sorts of crap... and the owner doesn't even know what the manufacturers put in the Smoking blends. Be SMART and request a lab report before buying the product. If you have time call the Lab up and confirm the validity of the lab report before purchasing from the seller. Read More »
Heads up to all Smoking Blend / Herbal Incense / Spice Incense users HR-1254 also known as the synthetic drug control act, has been amended into a larger FDA bill known as S.3187 which includes a copy paste version of the HR-1254 Bill at the very end. It has passed the House and Senate votes and is now due to be signed by the President on or shortly after July 9th, 2012 the bill will come into full effect 48 hrs after the signing. Be aware that if you have purchased Herbal Blends prior to this time period it is very possible that they contained banned substances. Read More »
The state of texas has banned the sell use and distribution of synthetic herbs such as K2 Incense, and Spice. Reasons for the ban are being cited as due to poor manufacturing of Products that caused many users to call in to the Texas Poison Center Network they have received an estimated 600 calls in since January 2010 relating to ... Read More »