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State Sen. Jeffrey Klein will introduce bill to ban deadly psychedelic drugs that are sold legally over the Internet.
State Senator Jeffrey Klein will join with TVs Dr. Mehmet Oz Tuesday to unveil a bill to ban deadly psychedelic drugs that are sold legally over the Internet.
The designer drugs, chemically formulated to mimic the effects of Ecstasy, Ketamine and other controlled substances, are marketed on websites as research chemicals or plant food.
Theyre sold under such names as Pi nk Panther, Benzo Fury and Charly Sheen intentionally misspelling the wacky actors first name.
The mind-bending chemicals are not regulated as controlled substances in the U.S., and cost as little as $ 8.
No one is fooled by the cynical attempt of these sellers to mask the fact that they are online drug dealers who target the young, said Klein, a Bronx Democrat who chairs the Senates Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.
These drugs are deadly, unrestricted, and one click away from becoming the next public health crisis in New York.
The bill will be submitted to the Legislature on Tuesday after Klein and Oz hold a press conference at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Childrens Hospital. The legislative push follows a Daily News investigation into the skyrocketing use of synthetic marijuana among young New Yorkers, which led Gov. Cuomo to enact a statewide ban on March 28.
Like synthetic cannabinoids, these hallucinogenic powders are marketed as not for human consumption and skirt the law by tweaking banned chemicals to make them legal.
Klein said the issue of online psychedelics came to his attention after he watched an episode of the Dr. Oz Show that called attention to the deadly powdered chemicals.
Oz highlighted the deaths of two Oklahoma teens who died after adding water to one of the powerful chemicals, Bromo-DragonFly. He also showcased a tragedy in Minnesota, where 11 kids at a house party were hospitalized last year after overdosing on the chemical 2C-E. One, a 19-year-old, died from it.
Kids will bring a packet of this to a party, other kids think its legal and safe, and then you die. You dont get a lot of warning with these drugs, Oz told The News. I think its the same kind of problem as synthetic marijuana. You need a two-prong approach. Parents and kids have to know its a danger and law enforcement has to be free to go after shops and sellers.
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