So let’s look at this one closely. While most of the United States is either legalizing, or at least decriminalizing marijuana (for better or worse), in Mississippi they are arresting people who sell imitation marijuana as drug dealers.
You have been warned!
A smokable incense known as potpourri was classified last month as the new spice by a Pascagoula store and turned out to be illegal today, according to tests performed by the state crime laboratory.
Lt. Curtis Spiers, commander of the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County, said BJ’s Market on Market Street in Pascagoula was raided on Sept. 20.
Drug agents collected numerous packages of Nola Diamond potpourri, crack pipes, handheld and digital scales, and flavored tobacco leaves used to roll marijuana or incense, Spiers said.
At least one cashier was booked for possession of drug paraphernalia following the September raid and Spiers said today that clerk and the storeowner would each face charges on sale and possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance.
“We’d like for them to turn themselves in,” Spiers said as he was busy obtaining a warrant for their arrest.
Gov. Haley Barbour on Sept. 4 signed a law that targeted smokable incense known as spice, which is sprayed with chemicals meant to mimic the effects of marijuana.
Spiers said in September that he believed he believed potpourri, which the store’s clerks were telling customers was the new spice and showing them how to smoke it, was just as dangerous and illegal.
Shortly after the raid, drug agents sent the Nola Diamond potpourri to the state crime lab and technicians confirmed Spiers suspicions on Friday.
“They had plenty of warnings,” Spiers said. “Now, they been identified as drug dealers and we’re going to treat them as we would any drug dealer.”
Originally posted on gulflive.com.
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