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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU.S. arrests 90 in nationwide synthetic drug crackdown
Source: Reuters
U.S. arrests 90 in nationwide synthetic drug crackdown
WASHINGTON | Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:40pm EDT
(Reuters) - Federal agents arrested more than 90 people and seized about 5 million packets of synthetic drugs - known on the street as "bath salts," "K2" and "Spice" - in the first U.S. nationwide crackdown on "designer drugs," the Drug Enforcement Administration said on Thursday.
The DEA said the haul from multi-agency raids in more than 100 U.S. cities included 4.8 million packets of synthetic cannabis, 167,000 packets of "bath salts" and more than $36 million in cash.
Operation Log Jam, which involved the DEA, five federal agencies, state and local police, "has disrupted the entire illegal industry, from manufacturers to retailers," DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart said in a statement.
"Together with our federal, state and local law enforcement partners, we are committed to targeting these new and emerging drugs with every scientific, legislative and investigative tool at our disposal," she said.
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WASHINGTON | Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:40pm EDT
(Reuters) - Federal agents arrested more than 90 people and seized about 5 million packets of synthetic drugs - known on the street as "bath salts," "K2" and "Spice" - in the first U.S. nationwide crackdown on "designer drugs," the Drug Enforcement Administration said on Thursday.
The DEA said the haul from multi-agency raids in more than 100 U.S. cities included 4.8 million packets of synthetic cannabis, 167,000 packets of "bath salts" and more than $36 million in cash.
Operation Log Jam, which involved the DEA, five federal agencies, state and local police, "has disrupted the entire illegal industry, from manufacturers to retailers," DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart said in a statement.
"Together with our federal, state and local law enforcement partners, we are committed to targeting these new and emerging drugs with every scientific, legislative and investigative tool at our disposal," she said.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/27/us-usa-narcotics-raid-idUSBRE86Q00Z20120727
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Eugene
Jul 2012
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eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)1. Again -- NOT "synthetic cannabis" -- IMITATION cannabis.
And a dangerous imitation at that ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=38305
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)2. Aren't most pharmaceuticals synthetic?
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)3. Was it called Operation Futile Exercise?
The black market chemists are coming up with new synthetics before they can even get around to banning the old new synthetics.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)4. You can buy all that shit direct from China
For pennies a pound. In most of the world that stuff is regarded as a nuisance and not bothered with.