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Salt Lake City Cops Wasting Their Time Chasing "Spice" Dealers
Police are tasked with enforcing the laws, not making them. Unfortunately, in Utah, some police officers seem to have forgotten their roles.
June 05, 2010 /Pharmaceutical PR News/ -- Police are tasked with enforcing the laws, not making them. Unfortunately, in Utah, some police officers seem to have forgotten their roles. Instead of pursuing activities that are actually prohibited, some officers in Salt Lake City have decided to spend their time cracking down on head shops, holistic medicine providers, convenience stores and other businesses selling a synthetic and legal marijuana-like product.
This so-called "fake weed" - known by a variety of names including Spice, K2, "Zohai," "Genie" and "black magic" - is a dried plant treated with a cannabinoid similar to the THC contained in marijuana and then turned into various forms of burnable incense.
Police officers and government agencies are using tenuous and broad interpretations of existing anti-drug laws to support their "merely educational" campaign of harassing area businesses that sell these products to suggest that sales immediately be halted.
Don't the Cops Have Enough "Real Crimes" to Worry About?
A few states have added laws to prohibit the possession, use or sale of Spice - but for now it is not banned under Utah or federal laws. However, there is a potentially precedent-setting possession case currently pending in a local juvenile court.
Unlike medical marijuana (which is currently illegal in Utah), these "fake" products are not regulated by the FDA or the DEA, and there have been no large-scale studies testing their safety or efficacy. Active ingredients in marijuana, specifically THC, have even been synthesized and incorporated into prescription medications like Marinol.
Since there have been no comprehensive, long-term studies performed on these substances, there is no reliable scientific information that using them has any effect on the body at all, and only anecdotal evidence that they can cause intoxication, impairment or harm.
There is no shortage of actual crime in Salt Lake City or across the country. Police officers need to focus their time and energy on preventing activities that actually fall within the purview of existing laws, rather than interfering with lawfully operating businesses.
If you have been unfairly accused of a drug crime because an overzealous police officer overstepped his boundaries, your first step in fighting to protect your rights is to contact a skilled local criminal defense attorney with experience handling drug-related crimes.
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