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 [KS] Bouncing Bear Botanicals raided *Update - Charges dropped!* 
#11965932 - 02/04/10 11:05 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid
February 4, 2010 - KCTV5
Legislators Consider Outlawing Drug
 LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Several agencies, including the FDA and Lawrence Police Department are inside the Sacred Journey store in Lawrence that has been closed down.
Officials said the store is known to sell a legal drug called K2. It's a smoking substance that's gotten the attention of Kansas lawmakers.
"They pulled all of us in handcuffs and questioned us and secured the situation and asked a lot of questions," said Ryan Vanchieri.
Vanchieri works at *Bouncing Bears Botanicals, which is Sacred Journey's distributor for K2. His warehouse was raided Thursday morning and he believes the business was unfairly shut down. He thinks the raid is why Sacred Journey was closed down.
"It might be made illegal in two weeks," he said. "It might be made illegal tomorrow. But it's not illegal today and our business has been shut down."
The Kansas House passed a bill that would make possession or sale of K2 illegal. The substance is known for the euphoric sensation it produces when it is smoked. An FDA spokesperson would not comment about the criminal investigation.
Vanchieri said authorities questioned him regarding the chemicals in the K2 product.
Investigators directed questions about the case to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: veggie]
#11965946 - 02/04/10 11:08 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's not cool, they just shut down people's warehouses for no reason
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: SethAsylum]
#11966391 - 02/05/10 01:02 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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i say we teach more kids how to huff gasoline... 
though I believe that if every kid in America was huffing gasoline, they wouldnt make it illegal. Just bomb another country to get some more oil.. 
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: veggie]
#11966431 - 02/05/10 01:17 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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i knew this shit would happen sooner or later! i used to smoke SPICE and shit like that all the time and it's cuz people insist on talking about it that causes it to be looked into by our ass hole government and then taken from us! i used to order mine online and no one knew about it....did this for years and now my local smoke shop carries it and EVERYONE is talking about how great it is....i give it a couple months before that's ripped away from us too!
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: Eric090585]
#11966658 - 02/05/10 02:54 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: Mr.Pink]
#11967084 - 02/05/10 06:23 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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its getting harder to own a business, bastards will shut you down for any reason whenever they feel like it
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: veggie]
#11967501 - 02/05/10 08:03 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Not BBB! They need to get the hell out of Kansas while they still can.
Criminal investigation? No one has broken any laws! What's there to investigate?
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When asked how the DEA learned about K2 an agent replied, "We have a great informant from the inside and we didn't even have to take her in to get sources. Her alias is neuro soup and she led us right to the source of this dangerous drug".
The most violent drug gang, also known as the DEA, has seized plants and herbs in operation rip and run. A spokesman for the department defended their actions by saying, "The defendant complained about us, so we kicked down his door and stuck fully automatic rifles into his face. We shot his dog and pepper sprayed his grandma for extra measure. We have good reason to believe he is linked with Al Quaeda, Fidel Castro, the Italian mafia, the Jewish mafia, the Mexican mafia, the Bloods, and the Crips. Their set tried to pull our card and start some funk so we ran in there with 15 niggas and said freeze motherfucker this is a stickup". Now back to Al with the weather.
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: utk]
#11968308 - 02/05/10 10:23 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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they better not have touched a single parotoid gland on A bufo toad's head or im gonna go fucking ape shit
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: Mr.Pink]
#11970812 - 02/05/10 04:29 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is the worst possible news for the community! They charged with intent to distribute DMT, mescaline, LSA - all because he was selling botanicals. The owner of BBB is looking at some serious felonies.
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: joemolloy]
#11971385 - 02/05/10 05:47 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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This doesn't sound good, at all.
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: BrainFood]
#11971641 - 02/05/10 06:26 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Holy shit, they shouldnt have been in kansas!
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: veggie]
#11971817 - 02/05/10 06:51 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lawrence man charged after Sacred Journey investigation
February 5, 2010 - ljworld.com
Jonathan Sloan charged with multiple counts of manufacturing, distributing controlled substances
 It’s not yet illegal, but federal officials and local law enforcement have pulled the popular, marijuana-like substance known as K2 off the shelves at the Lawrence store Sacred Journey, 1103 Mass.
The Food and Drug Administration, along with area police, raided the store and a major distributor of the herbal mixture Thursday, leading to drug charges against a Lawrence man in Jefferson County.
Jonathan Sloan, 29, owner of Bouncing Bears Botanicals, was charged in Jefferson County District Court on Friday with eight felony drug offenses, including the unlawful manufacturing and distribution of controlled substances.
Jefferson County Attorney Caleb Stegall said Sloan was arrested after an investigation of a warehouse facility he owns in Oskaloosa, north of Lawrence. Bouncing Bears Botanicals, 14501 S. U.S. Highway 59, had supplied Sacred Journey with K2, along with other herbal products. Federal, state and local authorities seized more than $700,000 in cash from Sloan’s business and bank accounts. Numerous items, including thousands of cactus plants and 20 toads, were removed from the warehouse, according to warehouse employees and Sloan’s attorney.
The charges come one day after law enforcement seized Sacred Journey’s entire K2 supply, other “ethnobotanicals” and certain cactus plants. Authorities on scene said the FDA was in charge of the investigation, but an FDA spokesman said the agency does not publicly comment on active investigations.
The raid and seizure at the store came as a “shock” to Melissa Hart, who resigned as Sacred Journey store manager on Friday.
She said the store was very careful in ensuring that the products it sold complied with state and federal laws.
“We had no knowledge of anything that was illegal,” she said.
The store reopened Friday.
The FDA has yet to release further details about the investigation.
Sloan’s attorney, Scott Gyllenborg, said his client was operating a legitimate botanical plant business, which he said was “one of the country’s, if not the world’s, biggest distributors of these botanicals.”
“These are remedies. These are items used in religious ceremonies that are legal, that can be put to illegal purposes,” Gyllenborg said.
Sloan is scheduled to return April 13 to Jefferson County District Court for a preliminary hearing. Prosecutors said more charges could be filed against him. Bond was set at $150,000.
Johnson County officials raised public awareness about K2 in November, warning that the substance is a synthetic version of marijuana, though it’s marketed as an incense.
Kansas House legislators this week passed a bill that would make illegal the sale or possession of the substances found in K2, but that legislation has yet to become law. Gov. Mark Parkinson has spoken in favor of the bill, which is expected to hit his desk this session.
Sacred Journey has been at the center of the debate about K2, as store employees and customers have begun speaking out against a ban on the substance.
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: veggie]
#11972001 - 02/05/10 07:21 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: joemolloy]
#11972104 - 02/05/10 07:39 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Anyone know what was in the K2 blend? I'm guessing it was a synthetic cannabinoid, but does anyone know which one? My pot dealer was arrested, so I depend on JWH at the moment. I can get some pot through a friend of a friend of a friend, but it's a lot of work...
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joemolloy said:
This is the worst possible news for the community! They charged with intent to distribute DMT, mescaline, LSA - all because he was selling botanicals. The owner of BBB is looking at some serious felonies.
So they won't be selling cacti anymore? So glad I got a few feet last month. How about the MHRB? Will they be coming for other vendors? Wondering if I should order some MHRB before it's suppliers are raided too. Anyone know how long it keeps? I probably won't be able to do any extraction for several months.
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: veggie]
#11972132 - 02/05/10 07:43 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't see how they can charge him with anything before it being made illegal. But yeah, he should have gotten out of Kansass in any case.
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: ToiletDuk]
#11972213 - 02/05/10 07:59 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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That may be BBB's best defense in court. I don't see how he can be charged for selling a product that's legal. The cops jumped the gun on this. Perhaps if they had waited until the law had passed, but of course then Mr. Sloan would have removed those products.
I think he will get off because of that, but they totally ruined his business. 
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: veggie]
#11972223 - 02/05/10 08:01 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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I hope he sues their ass off for malicious prosecution. 
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: ToiletDuk]
#11972565 - 02/05/10 09:02 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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he probably is getting charged for mescaline, maybe dmt and who knows what else. 8 felonies fuckin bummer man, hope he doesnt have any major priors...
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Re: Lawrence Store Shut Down After K2 Raid [KS] [Re: wowitch17]
#11972631 - 02/05/10 09:12 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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from their forums:
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Here are the bogus charges:
The charges against Sloan
• Unlawful manufacturing of controlled substances: Dimethlyltryptamine (DMT)
• Unlawful manufacturing of controlled substances: Mescaline
• Unlawful manufacturing of controlled substances: Lysergic Acid Amide
• Unlawful cultivation or distribution of controlled substances: Mescaline
• Unlawful cultivation or distribution of controlled substances: Dimethlyltryptamine; Chacruna; Illinois Bundleflower; Epena; Cebil Seeds.
• Unlawful cultivation or distribution of controlled substances: Bufotenine, Epena, Chaliponga, Cebil Seeds, Colorado River Toads.
• Unlawful cultivation or distribution of controlled substances: Lysergic Acid Amide, Morning Glory Seeds, Rivea Corymbosa.
• Unlawful possession of certain drug precursors and drug paraphernalia: Plastic jugs and filters used or intended for unlawful use to manufacture, cultivate, plant propagate, harvest, test, analyze or distribute a controlled substance.
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