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 BlackWidow
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 Proposed Salvia Ban in Oswego County 
#16776233 - 09/02/12 02:06 PM (8 months, 12 days ago) |
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From: http://palltimes.com/articles/2012/08/22/news/doc5035674271657456583823.txt
Please email the local representatives in this county to stop the ban of Salvia Divinorum.
Article:
OSWEGO — Laws prohibiting the sale and possession of bath salts and synthetic hallucinogens are coming to Oswego County.
The county Legislature is holding a special meeting at noon Aug. 29 to schedule public hearings for four local laws, all of which deal with synthetic drugs and products used to beat drug and alcohol tests.
The meeting will be held at the legislative offices at 46 E. Bridge St., Oswego.
Administrator Phil Church said the hearings would be scheduled prior to the county Legislature’s Sept. 13 meeting at 7 p.m. Legislators will also vote on the proposed laws during the September meeting, said Church.
Assuming the laws are passed, they would go into effect once filed with New York’s Secretary of State Office.
“We’ve had this in planning for two or three months,” said Church. “The situation, we feel, in the county, is getting to the point where we need to move faster.”
The laws would outlaw the sale or possession of psychoactive bath salts and herbal incense, synthetic hallucinogens and salvia divinorum. One of the laws — a “public nuisance abatement” measure — would also allow the sheriff’s office to close businesses if they accumulate enough points from violations committed in a year, said Church.
Another law would ban the sale, distribution and use of synthetic urine and materials used to avoid testing positive on alcohol and drug tests.
The laws are criminal statutes rather than Health Department violations, said Church. Maximum punishments for those found guilty of breaking the unclassified misdemeanors include a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
County Undersheriff Eugene Sullivan said several departments — including the sheriff’s, county attorney’s and district attorney’s offices — contributed to forming the laws.
“Frankly, we’re ecstatic at the potential to have something like this,” said Sullivan. “At least locally, by the degree the county can by law, this is the harshest possible penalty. Other than that, I don’t know what more they can do than that.”
The county laws will be in effect if or until the state passes criminal measures regarding bath salts or synthetic marijuana. New York has already passed Health Department regulations regarding synthetic drugs, but has not adopted any criminal laws.
“We are adopting these under the county’s home rule authority,” said Church. “Should the state come in and do it under penal law … our laws would be void.”
Local attention regarding bath salts and other synthetic drugs has increased after a series of raids on shops suspected of selling drug paraphernalia in Fulton and Oswego and the death of Lycoming resident Victor Woolson, a 19-year-old student at Cayuga Community College in Fulton.
According to his family, Woolson smoked herbal incense prior to a swimming incident in Lake Ontario on Aug. 9, an incident that ended with Woolson spending an unknown amount of time underwater before he was removed from the lake by Oswego firefighters.
He died the following day at Oswego Hospital.
Incidents regarding bath salts and other synthetic drugs have not been limited to Oswego County. Statewide emergency room visits with bath salts listed as the chief complaint increased sharply in 2012, said county Associate Public Health Sanitarian Natalie Roy.
Excluding figures from New York City, Roy said there were 39 reported emergency room visits across the state in 2011 with bath salts listed as the cause.
In 2012, the number has jumped to 191, with 120 occurring in June and July.
Roy was unsure of emergency room visits caused by bath salts in Oswego County.
Names under which synthetic drugs and bath salts are sold — such as Pure Ivory or Scarface — are specified in the laws. The measures also state, though, that the drugs may have other names and be marketed as “not for human consumption.”
Enforceable by the county sheriff’s office, the public nuisance law sets point values for different violations. The sale of synthetic drugs to people younger than 18 years of age and the manufacture of synthetics merits six points, and selling drugs to anyone older than 18 years of age or keeping false business records that alter receipts to hide that synthetic drugs were sold at a business is worth four points.
Any location where the “public nuisances” occur can be shut down by the sheriff’s office.
While not a synthetic drug, the sale and possession of salvia divinorum will also be banned in Oswego County. Use of the plant — also known as “Maria Pastora” or “Sage of the Seers,” among other names — has increased, said Church, with people using it as an alternative to marijuana.
“If we’re doing synthetics and bath salts, then we should do the natural one also, which is salvia, and do all of these at once as a statement of the county’s commitment to battling drug crime,” said Church.
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 5-HT2A
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Re: Proposed Salvia Ban in Oswego County [Re: BlackWidow]
#16776275 - 09/02/12 02:16 PM (8 months, 12 days ago) |
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What a sub-par bunch of legislators. I didn't even read the thing, but it's amazing how even though bath salts have only posed a danger since this summer, they now feel the need to go ban something almost no one likes and isn't addictive to anyone and isn't causing any serious problems that has been around for around 10 years. I mean it's been on the DEA's watch list for years and even they don't give a fuck about it.
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BlackWidow
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Re: Proposed Salvia Ban in Oswego County [Re: 5-HT2A]
#16777850 - 09/02/12 08:05 PM (8 months, 12 days ago) |
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Please email both the sheriff department sheriff@oswegocounty.com and the legislator wfalls@oswegocounty.com about your support for Salvia Divinorum.
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eLShaMukO
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Re: Proposed Salvia Ban in Oswego County [Re: BlackWidow]
#16778281 - 09/02/12 09:28 PM (8 months, 12 days ago) |
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