Post by Logan on Feb 4, 2016 3:10:37 GMT -6
House bill to set harsher penalties for synthetic drug trafficking
The Spanish slang word for a beautiful woman is flaca, but the illegal synthetic drug of the same name, spelled flakka, gives users extreme symptoms of paranoia, violent behavior and has been called the zombie drug by ER doctors. Its effects are anything but pretty.
Majority Floor Leader Rocky Adkins (D-Sandy Hook) testified on a bill Wednesday addressing the $5-hit drug, which has gained popularity from south Florida to rural Kentucky.
Over a period of about a year, Lewis County Sheriff Johnny Bivens told the House Judiciary Committee his law enforcement officers had collected five pounds of the synthetic drug in his county.
Bivens’ said his office first received an insignificant amount of flakka-related calls, but as time passed his deputies started receiving several calls a day. Bivens, in turn, called Adkins hoping he could help.
Read more: www.state-journal.com/latest%20headlines/2016/02/03/house-bill-to-set-harsher-penalties-for-synthetic-drug-trafficking
The Spanish slang word for a beautiful woman is flaca, but the illegal synthetic drug of the same name, spelled flakka, gives users extreme symptoms of paranoia, violent behavior and has been called the zombie drug by ER doctors. Its effects are anything but pretty.
Majority Floor Leader Rocky Adkins (D-Sandy Hook) testified on a bill Wednesday addressing the $5-hit drug, which has gained popularity from south Florida to rural Kentucky.
Over a period of about a year, Lewis County Sheriff Johnny Bivens told the House Judiciary Committee his law enforcement officers had collected five pounds of the synthetic drug in his county.
Bivens’ said his office first received an insignificant amount of flakka-related calls, but as time passed his deputies started receiving several calls a day. Bivens, in turn, called Adkins hoping he could help.
Read more: www.state-journal.com/latest%20headlines/2016/02/03/house-bill-to-set-harsher-penalties-for-synthetic-drug-trafficking