State Police cracking down on synthetic drugs

May 31, 2011

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The Charleston Gazette (WV)

By Eric Eyre

"State Police and other state officials want store owners to know they can't get around the law by selling new formulations of synthetic 'bath salts' or marijuana."

"'Just because someone has a laboratory report saying [synthetic drugs] are legal in the state of West Virginia, it doesn't mean it is,' said Lt. Joe White of the West Virginia State Police. He said 99 percent of the synthetic marijuana and 'bath salts' being sold in the state are probably illegal, no matter what the package may say. ..."

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