So is BBB shut down for now?

The feds never go after individual users. They could, mind you, but they don't. They spend their resources destroying the source.

http://www.kansan.com/news/2010/feb/04/police_officer_herbs/

Police and FDA raid local herbal stores

Two stores in northeast Kansas that sell the herbal blend drug K2 were served with federal warrants Thursday and one store owner was arrested.

The Sacred Journey, 1103 Massachusetts St., had its doors closed Thursday and wasn’t letting customers inside. Eye-witnesses confirmed seeing people inside the store putting items in boxes.

Lydia Shontz, an employee at The Sacred Journey, said she arrived to open the store at about 10 a.m. and found the alarms going off and officers with the Food and Drug Administration and police in the store with a search warrant.

Shontz said it looked like they had been there for several hours before she arrived.

Shontz said the officers took her and another employee to the Lawrence Police Department to inquire about K2, how much K2 the store sells and employees at the store. She also said the officers asked about whether the store was selling salvia divinorum, a hallucinogen outlawed in the state in April 2008.

A bill banning K2 is currently circulating through the state, but the drug has not yet been banned.

Shontz said the police told her the search warrant allowed the FDA to confiscate anything that the organization deems as being sold as a drug in the store. She said the FDA saw K2 as a drug, rather than the herbal blend it’s sold as in the store.

Shontz said she was expecting the police involvement, but not federal involvement. And not this soon.

“It sucks,” Shontz said. “I knew that this would happen and I knew it would happen to me because I’m the first one here in the morning.”

She said she thought the store might lose customers who think K2 was illegal because of the searches.

Bouncing Bear Botanicals, a website that sells herbs, entheogens, and K2, was also served with a federal search warrant Thursday morning. The warehouse facility for the website is located in Oskaloosa.

Ryan Vanchieri works in shipping at the company’s headquarters. He said officers from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, FDA and Jefferson County sheriffs detained, handcuffed, searched and questioned employees. He said they searched computer files and seized business property.

“They were really nice about it,” Vanchieri said. “But they were stealing private property.”

Jefferson County Attorney Caleb Stegall announced that Bouncing Bear owner Jonathan Sloan was arrested during the operation and was being held in Jefferson County Jail on charges of possession of controlled substances. Formal charges are expected to be filed today.

Vanchieri said he thought the business was going to be shut down for good.

He said the entire property was confiscated and employees were not allowed to return to the premises.

— Edited by Taylor Bern

http://blogs.pitch.com/p..._synthetic_marijuana.php

Lawrence man charged with multiple felonies following raid on head shop carrying synthetic marijuana
By Peter Rugg in Follow That Story, News
Fri., Feb. 5 2010 @ 3:52PM
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​Jefferson County prosecutors charged Jonathan Sloan of Lawrence with multiple felonies today, according to a press release from the Jefferson County Attorney's Office.

Sloan was arrested yesterday during a law enforcement sweep that raided Lawrence stores Bouncing Bear Botanicals and Sacred Journey.

Sloan is charged with eight felonies -- seven for the unlawful cultivation or distribution of a controlled substance.


Each count references a separate drug, which is listed in the release as:

* Dimethyltryptamine

* Mescaline

* Lysergic Acid Amide

* Mescaline as contained in Trichocereus Cacti

* Diethyltryptamine as contained in Mimosa Hostilis powder and 21 boxes of Mimosa Hostilis bark, Chacruna (Psychotrin Viridis), Illinois Bundleflower (Desmanthus Illinoisis), Epena (Virola Theriodora), Chaliponga (Diplopterys Cabrerana), and Cebil Seeds

* Bufotenine contained in Chacruma (Psyychotrin Viridis), Epena (Virola Theriodora), Chaliponga (Diplopsterys Cabrerana), Cebil Seeds, and Colorado River Toads

* Lysergic Acid Amide as contained in Hawaii Baby Woodrose Seeds, Morning Glory Seeds, and Rivea Corymbosa

Sloan was also charged with one count of unlawful possession of certain drug precursors and paraphernalia, which in the press release was identified as a plastic jug and some filters.

Sloan was scheduled to make his first appearnce in Jefferson County District Court at 2 p.m.

Sacred Journey store owner Natalie McAnulla has not been charged in connection to the raid, though her shop will no longer be carrying K2, the synthetic marijuana that mimics the effects of real marijuana on the brain.

In the last two weeks, Kansas legislators have approved bills that would criminalize the product. It remains legal for now.

McAnulla's attorney, John Knox, said federal agents seized many of the same things during their investigation of Sloan as they did during their raid on McAnulla, including ethnobotanicals and plants, as well as Sacred Journey's entire supply of the still-legal K2.

"Yesterday we spoke to federal agents and they said they hadn't yet determined if they would be charging (McAnulla)," Knox says.

Whoa, that's hectic dudes.

So noone was actually extracting anything but they were bust for holding certain herbs. Hectic.

Notice that the FDA raided and not the DEA.

I wonder what the significance of the FDA vs the DEA is for this case?