Posted on 01/15/2015 11:17:21 AM PST by Olog-hai
The Supreme Court ruled today on the dangers of some so-called “legal highs”, setting new sentencing thresholds for possession of the drugs.
Judges had to rule on the substances after a drug dealer appealed a two-years suspended sentence for selling herbs mixed with artificial cannabinoids—the active ingredients of cannabis—over the internet.
The Bavarian state court in Landshut found that the man knew that he was selling consciousness-altering substances to people inside and outside Germany.
His sales were often in amounts significantly larger than the 1.75 grams the state court decided would be “minor” for sentencing purposes after hearing evidence from experts. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.de ...
This is one of the dangers of trying to regulate drugs with a schedule of banned substances. It is only illegal to sell the chemicals that have been scheduled, so chemists can simply cook up a new synthetic version, with an extra atom stuck on somewhere, and it will not be illegal.
So you end having some people buy this synthetic “legal pot”, with unknown side effects, instead of buying the natural “illegal pot” with known side effects.
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