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Only a few days before the world was stunned and horrified by the video of a man, allegedly under the influence of “bath salts,” eating the face off of a homeless man in Florida, Senator Patrick Leahy quiety removed 15 synthetic cathinone chemicals, used to manufacture these dangerous drugs, from The Synthetic Drug Abuse Pevention Act of 2012.
The To the Maximus Foundation has been holding this story for about a month. We are not officially a media organization, and as such could not protect our sources. So, we were unable to report this story.
However, we were very happy to see that ABC News has run with it.
According to ABC News, Sen. Patrick Leahy was responsible for removing 15 bath salt chemicals from The Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012, Section D of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act. The resulting legislation passed the U.S. Senate on May 24, passed the U.S. House with changes on June 20, and will go back to the Senate to approve the House changes. After Senate approval, it requires Presidential signature.
Sen. Leahy is the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was the only Senator on the committee that opposed the inclusion of these chemical compounds, and therefore bares responsiblity for weaking this important legislation.
To The Maximus Foundation was aware of Leahy’s actions weeks ago, but could not report on it because we could not insure the anonymity of our sources. However, Karen Dobner, President of To the Maximus Foundation, talked with Sen. Leahy staffers in May and again today. Dobner was told by staffers in several other legislative offices that Leahy single-handedly caused those chemicals to be excluded from the legislation.
Previously, Karen Dobner was told by Sen. Leahy’s office that the Senator was concerned that the legislation had not gone through the “proper channels.” Legislators had previously attempted to use the Unanimous Consent Agreement provision to “fast track” HB 1254 last year to rush this needed legislation through because people had been dying, going to emergency rooms and being irreparably harmed, physically and mentally, from synthetic drugs.
However, Sen. Rand Paul blocked HB1254 for months, and now Sen. Leahy has eliminated 15 of the synthetic Cathinodes (“Bath Salts) from the recently passed legislation.
This is a list of the drugs that Senator Leahy struck from the bill:
Leahy’s assertion that he accomplished something great by getting consensus on a bill is completely false. Although the newly passed legislation outlaws many known synthetic cannabinoids (synthetic marijuana), the bill, as it stands now, does very little to stem the flow of synthetic cathinones (bath salts).
Sen. Leahy’s office released this quote to us: “It was the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Leahy, which passed three synthetic drug bills last year including one that makes substances known as ‘bath salts’ Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act. Senator Leahy has fought to keep the Senate language on synthetic drugs, which also strengthens the DEA’s emergency scheduling powers, in the FDA reauthorization bill. He intends to work with the DEA, FDA and others to ensure that this new legislation is effective in combatting the proliferation of synthetic drugs.” – Judiciary Committee Spokesperson
Although Leahy’s office has released the quote and attributed it to a Judiciary Committee spokesperson, To The Maximus Foundation has no independent verification of the source of this quote. After all, Dobner was told by three separate high-ranking legislative staffers that Leahy was the only senator in the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose the inclusion of all the ‘bath salt’ chemicals that were included in HR 1254.
In 2011, we saw an 1,800 percent increase in the number of calls to poison control for synthetic cathinone (bath salt) related incidences.
To the Maximus Foundation supports this legislation in order to battle the sale of synthetic marijuana (cannabinoids), we urge the congress and senate to pass emergency legislation or an amendment which reintroduces these chemicals to the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012.
—– Sen. Leahy Balks at ‘Bath Salts’ Ban By RUSSELL GOLDMAN (@GoldmanRussell) June 25, 2012
Federal law enforcement officials, eager to get a deadly array of toxic drugs known as “bath salts” off the streets, say they are frustrated that bureaucratic politics got in the way of congressional lawmakers drafting a comprehensive ban.
“Bath salts are the worst of the worst of the synthetic drugs,” said a law enforcement source familiar with the congressional negotiations. “It makes no sense why they aren’t all included in the bill.
The bill in question would add an array of ever evolving synthetic drugs to the federal list of illegal substances, but conspicuously missing are many of the elements used in bath salts. The omission has led some lawmakers to accuse their colleagues, particularly Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., of choosing political expediency over public safety.
The Drug Enforcement Administration recently submitted a list of 41 synthetic drugs it wanted Congress to place on the “Schedule I” list of federally criminalized drugs that already includes heroin, cocaine and meth. Among those were 17 chemicals used to produce bath salts, a stimulant believed to have played a role in a spate of grisly incidents including a May assault in Florida in which an attacker allegedly high on the drug chewed off a homeless man’s face.
A conference of House and Senate lawmakers last week agreed to ban just two variants of bath salts, leading cops to wonder why only limited steps were taken.
A bill that was recently passed in the House of Representatives sought to add all 17 bath salt chemicals to the government’s list of controlled substances. In the Senate, an amendment to an FDA act listed just two bath salts compounds, MDPV and mephedrone.
When House and Senate negotiators concluded their conference talks this week, they agreed to criminalize 26 synthetic drugs, including those found in synthetic marijuana and the street drugs “K2″ and “Spice,” but listed only the two bath salts chemicals named in the Senate legislation.
Ironically, and to the consternation of law enforcement officials desperate to get bath salts off the street, those two drugs are already illegal after the DEA put them on an “emergency schedule” list last year.
The DEA has no official statistics on arrests or prosecutions for bath salts, a testament to the drug’s rapid popularity and the variety of chemicals that fall under the “bath salts” street label.
Between 2010 and 2011, however, the number of calls to poison control centers nationwide related to bath salts increased from 303 to over 6,000, a more than 1,800 percent increase.
Law enforcement officials contend that including all the known bath salts substances on the schedule will make it easier to prosecute the criminals who import, sell and possess the deadly chemicals. If a drug is on the list of controlled substances, investigations and prosecutions can proceed quickly.
“There are no questions about the drug if it’s a controlled substance. We just know it’s illegal and can get to work. Already, lots of time is wasted just waiting for lab results to come back,” said a DEA official.
Law enforcement officials as well as several congressional staffers not authorized to speak on the record but familiar with the negotiations say Leahy chose not to include the additional 15 bath salt drugs included in the House bill. Congressional Conference Considered Ban on Bath Salts
“Those 15 got lost because in the conference there was some procedural issue and Leahy didn’t want to bother with it,” said a Senate staffer.
“Bath salts were in the House bill. And they’re not in this one. You’d have to ask Sen. Leahy why that happened,” said a staffer for a House Republican.
Leahy did not respond to requests for comment from ABCNews.com, but a Judiciary Committee staffer defended Leahy’s decision to put just two of the 17 substances in the final version of the bill, saying “Leahy’s focus was to get done what the Senate started. The House bill was out there, but not in a formal way.”
He argued that with a bitterly divided Congress, getting consensus on a bill as complex as the FDA Safety and Innovation Act was an accomplishment.
When asked why not criminalize drugs that the DEA says it needs listed to help keep the streets safe, the committee staffer said, “Sen. Leahy has been clear that scheduling controlled substances is not something to be taken lightly.”
“It is not without implication to put a whole lot of chemicals on the federal drug schedule,” he said. “It means putting more people in jail and makes it harder to seek legitimate uses for these drugs. Leahy is most comfortable sticking with what has been carefully considered.”
On background DEA officials were frustrated that the bill did not go far enough, but publically the agency “commended House and Senate negotiators for agreeing on legislation to control 26 synthetic drugs.”
The bill also gives the DEA new powers to temporarily declare drugs illegal without going through the lengthy scheduling process to permanently criminalize them. Under the new law the agency can place drugs on a two-year “emergency schedule.” Currently, the DEA can only emergency schedule a drug for one year.
In the meantime, one DEA official said, agents will be playing a “game of whack-a-mole,” discovering new drugs and trying to classify them fast enough to prosecute offenders.
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Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: 5-HT2A] #16459143 - 06/30/12 04:32 AM (10 months, 16 days ago)
Imo, I'd have been happier if he'd left most of these in, and struck the psychedelic phenethylamines from the list..
really, think about it. the 2C's were all relatively safe. These new psychedelics though that they're coming out with have a notably higher risk ratio with them. If the original 2C's were still legal, people wouldn't have to turn to drugs with a higher risk profile.
Then again, this is true of drugs in general, isn't it? After all, if mushrooms and LSD were legal, we might not ever have needed 2C's and the like anyways. If pot were legal, we wouldn't have had synthetic cannabinoids, and if MDMA were legal, we wouldn't have various other entactogens with higher risk profiles appearing everywhere (not to mention the impurity of ecstasy).
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Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: Magick] #16459332 - 06/30/12 06:25 AM (10 months, 16 days ago)
Yeah he took out mostly inactive chemicals. I'm glad that Methylone, NBOMe, 6-APB, Methoxetamine, Etizolam, DOC, 4-MeO-PCP and 5-MeO-MIPT and staying legal though
Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: SheerTerror] #16459655 - 06/30/12 09:52 AM (10 months, 15 days ago)
I heard you can marry your daughter in Vermont. And I knew a guy that seemed like he was working his way towards that. Now they can get married and snort some Cathinones. That should be a party.
I love Vermont. NewYork sucks. Ethan Allen and the Green MT Boys for the win in Ticonderoga.
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Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: downlowfunk] #16459772 - 06/30/12 10:59 AM (10 months, 15 days ago)
haha so they struck all the shitty ones from the list... oh well... here's to a new wave of psychedelic chems
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Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban *DELETED* [Re: 5-HT2A] #16459941 - 06/30/12 12:13 PM (10 months, 15 days ago)
Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: Rail_Gun] #16460052 - 06/30/12 12:42 PM (10 months, 15 days ago)
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Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: LongStrangeTrip] #16460124 - 06/30/12 01:02 PM (10 months, 15 days ago)
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Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: Rail_Gun] #16461045 - 06/30/12 05:07 PM (10 months, 15 days ago)
Just what the feds need, more power also what is this convoluted crap about fees on generic drugs tacked on to this bill?
most of the chems on this bill are not even close to 'extremely dangerous' leave that definition for carcinogens, explosives, toxins. most of which will never be illegal. "drugs" are only dangerous when idiots get their hands on them, then it is the high idiot thats endangers themselves or others by either taking more than their share or negligently hurting other people.
The house and senate would rather be a for every whim of the DEA than do some simple research.
for fucks sake 2C-H is not an active drug and has never even been used as one, do you see it being struck from the list?
Law enforcement is supposed to be about protecting and serving the people who pay their salaries, not extorting and exploiting them.
Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: LongStrangeTrip] #16461093 - 06/30/12 05:17 PM (10 months, 15 days ago)
Quote: LongStrangeTrip said: Does this mean we can buy methylone again?~
I believe it is still schedule one under the emergency scheduling provision done earlier this year.
-------------------- ...the whole experience is (and is as) a profound piece of knowledge. It is an indellible experience; it is forever known. I have known myself in a way I doubt I would have ever occurred except as it did.
Smith, P. Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27.
...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.
Osmond, H. Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436
Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: 5-HT2A] #16461111 - 06/30/12 05:21 PM (10 months, 15 days ago)
Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: badchad] #16461284 - 06/30/12 05:57 PM (10 months, 15 days ago)
Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: badchad] #16461833 - 06/30/12 08:25 PM (10 months, 15 days ago)
Quote: LongStrangeTrip said: Does this mean we can buy methylone again?~
I believe it is still schedule one under the emergency scheduling provision done earlier this year.
Touche, that is 100% correct.
And I agree, I am sure that they will move to make it permanent before the ban is up. Oh well, I am glad I got to experience it, but its obviously not something that anyone needs at all. Or at least me
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Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: LongStrangeTrip] #16464017 - 07/01/12 10:05 AM (10 months, 14 days ago)
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Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: Magick] #16464030 - 07/01/12 10:13 AM (10 months, 14 days ago)
Re: Senator Patrick Leahy Responsible For Excluding 15 Bath Salt Chemicals From New Drug Ban [Re: i like cow poo] #16465133 - 07/01/12 02:58 PM (10 months, 14 days ago)
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