Pasco Readies to Enforce Anti-Spice Ordinance
Store owners can be fined up to $500 per item for failing to follow a new county law.
Vickie Davis was at Georgia’s Smoke Shop in Port Richey on Wednesday when Pasco County Sheriff’s deputies came to visit the store with a warning. Deputies are readying to start enforcing a recently passed county ordinance that aims to fight synthetic drug use and penalizes shopkeepers that sell synthetic drug products. Davis, who says she’s the owner of the shop, was given a letter Wednesday telling her this and explaining the ordinance. Lt. Chuck Balderstone, who leads the agency’s vice and narcotics unit, says Georgia’s is a shop that visibly displays synthetic marijuana for sale. Sgt. William Davis told the shop owner and a shop full of journalists that she had completed sales to minors. “Take that ordinance seriously,” he said. Law …
michael mirra
8:22 pm on Wednesday, December 26, 2012
This stuff should be outlawed. I used it & learned the hard way that it IS poison. It is toxic chemicals that simulate pot high, but unlike pot, it is very damaging to the human body. I only hope that the damage it did to my body will be overcome by my body's recouperative powers. I fear for any poor innocent kids that can easily damaged by it. The law makes them change the chemicals & they use … more ›