Under the bill, a drug that proves to be hazardous can be pulled of shelves wherever it is being sold and held as contraband. If the decision to do so is approved by the legislature, the product would then be added to the list of illegal drugs.
Another type of synthetic marijuana was also added to the bill, which had already been outlawed by the department of Health and Hospitals, but which prosecutors had been reluctant to prosecute out of concern that the agency hadn’t complied with the process necessary to make the substances illegal.
Under the bill, those who violate a stop order can be fined $500 and made to spend two years in prison, with each day of continued violation counting as a separate offense.
Source: Shreveport Times, “Bills seek to stop illegal drugs,” Mike Hasten, May 26, 2012.
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