Duluth City Council makes synthetic marijuana illegal
August 30, 2010 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
The Duluth City Council unanimously voted to outlaw the sale, manufacture, purchase or possession of synthetic marijuana within city limits Monday night. In so doing, Duluth became the first city in the state to make synthetic marijuana illegal. Continue Reading
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Shucks…..thought y’all would like that great 60′s music from the Ventures. ‘Member Walk Don’t Run? ’60 or ’64 version….you pick.
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So is there anything that will prevent these businesses from moving to Superior and continuing along like nothing happened?
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I’m not suggesting “pulling up roots” but rather opening a branch store in a cheap strip-mall in Superior and continuing on as though nothing happened. It doesn’t take a massive investment to setup a few cases with packets of incense, the clientèle doesn’t need anything more and the cash continues to roll in. Seems silly to send this business across state lines and create yet ANOTHER black market in the process, no? Or do you think prohibition actually works?
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I don’t think prohibition works. I do think there is enough sales going on in Superior already to make it cost prohibitive for Duluth businesses to start a ‘branch’ but then I’m not a business owner so what do I know. It just is common sense to me the City has already weighed the Sales Tax Revenue against Other Values and made the correct choice (imo).
Also think it is just a matter of time before other cities/states join us. We are not the First and we won’t be the Last to take action.
For those comparing this latest Drug Fad with cigarettes is like comparing apples and oranges. Just as comparing cigarettes to LSD or PCP is apples and oranges. Evidently it depends on your life experience where the cut off lies. I know too many people who have lived perfectly “clean” lives (literally out in the fresh air on farms with no second-hand smoke or alcohol) and still died of Some Form of Cancer AND it Appears to me K2 has the same IMMEDIATE detrimental effects as LSD or PCP and we don’t yet know how Long Lasting the effects can be. I also remember the PCP (angel dust) years clearly as I am sure many LE and Hospital personnel do as well.
The argument of ‘bans’ is far reaching, and relates strongly for some with Big Brother and Governmental Control….$$$$….public safety…..yada yada yada and people will always be Largely Divided in their perspective.
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Fair enough, I don’t live up in that area so I wasn’t aware that other businesses in Superior were already selling this. I’m sure they are quite pleased because their profit margins are about to skyrocket. I’ve seen several of these ‘head shops’ raking in the cash in Moorhead, MN ever since North Dakota banned the substance. One just moved into a huge building right on Main Avenue as you come across the Main Avenue bridge. Judging by the amount of cars in the parking lots, business is absolutely booming for them.
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Moving this post from the Last Article prior to The Vote….to this article…..
misty johnson said: On August 30, 2010 at 6:38 PM
Y’all are cracking me up. While many of you have valid points, I can’t help but show my age and say this K2 or whatever they want to call it is smacking of Angel Dust in my mind….
http://www.cmcsb.com/pcpangel.htm
Laugh if you want…..but anyone smoking weed in the past 30 years or more who thinks they were smoking Pure Weed with No Additives sprayed on it after Harvest is already in an Altered State of Reality UNLESS they have been growing their own.
But y’all go ahead and think what you want if it makes you feel good. Putting my Construction Hat on and Expecting Fall Out….see ya in a day or two….ROFL
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Again, life experience……is a Big Factor…..
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You are right! The drug war and prohibition have done nothing to help our drug problem. It is only getting worse.
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See new article about Superior joining the ranks of those banning K2 or whatever name it is going by…..
That didn’t take long.
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LOL, I can see my popularity has taken a DIVE so I am donning Scuba Gear as opposed to my Hard Hat…..
Evidently y’all think I am against legalizing pot. I have Never been against Legalizing pot…..that is the Only Way Additives can be Controlled, well the Completely Illegal and Death Linked Additives anyway.
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If you do the research you will see that marijuana has not been linked to one single death in the US in 2008. The only deaths are from drug control.
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If the City sales tax of approx 2% amounts to $400,000.00 the actual sales would be twenty million dollars… I don’t think so. Figures lie and liers figure.
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Now the city council should make it illegal for DEDA to spend tax dollars for such follies as the opera block.
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Kudos to the Duluth City Council for passing this type of legislation without any medical or factual evidence to lean back on but fear and hysteria. I am glad the city council knows whats best for its citizens.Can we take a look at banning cigs and alcohol too while we’re at it? Northern Minnesota is turning into a red Republican state, and if I wanted that, I could have moved to North Dakota.
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Well, you folks all jumped aboard when it was all about nailing people who smoke cigarettes with little to justify it but fear and hysteria, believe it or not. It’s a little late now to complain that banning legal products is wrong. Since the largest financial backer of the whole anti-smoker witchhunt (the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) has stopped funding that and is now targeting the witchhunt against fat people, expect more bans on things you enjoy. You wanted it, you got it.
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It is a fact that prohibition does not work. I find it rediculous that this K2 and many other drugs are illegal when alcohol causes more deaths, family problems, fetal alcohol syndrome, etc. than any of the other drugs put together and it is still legal. The biggest problem with drugs is deaths due to prohibition. Just doesn’t make sense that alcohol is still legal. What’s up with that?
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this is a joke the duluth city coun has more important issues then to make it illegal to have a mandated legal product. leave it to DCC to do nothing productive.
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How about they make the thing that doesn’t actually kill people legal?
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I know I’m adding to it, but I see there is a combined 62 posts on this topic. I’m not keeping score but that’s probably in the top 5 since I’ve been at all interested in Area Voices. Let’s move on… Face it, this stuff is not meant to be smoked, ingested, snorted or any other means to get it into your body the same as sniffing gas, glue or huffing compressed air is not recommended.
The attention this has brought has only made it more popular. Whether it’s banned in Duluth, Superior or any other part of the world is not going to stop people from producing or using it. NBC ran a five minute segment on this product during a weekend Today Show episode several weeks ago and it wasn’t more than a few days later that a Duluth city counsilor brought it as something to ban. Funny how that works.
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