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UPDATE: Miss. gov signs bill banning synthetic marijuana
by The Associated Press
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A senator holds up a copy of the governor s proclamation for the call to Special Session and the consideration of outlawing synthetic marijuana that s been sold in convenience stores and smoke shops under several names, including Spice, K2, Demon, Voodoo, Genie and Zohai, Friday at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. They has also been asked to consider local projects for DeSoto County and the city of D Iberville, and granting a $75 million loan for a biofuel project during the Special Session. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
A senator holds up a copy of the governor's proclamation for the call to Special Session and the consideration of outlawing synthetic marijuana that's been sold in convenience stores and smoke shops under several names, including Spice, K2, Demon, Voodoo, Genie and Zohai, Friday at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. They has also been asked to consider local projects for DeSoto County and the city of D'Iberville, and granting a $75 million loan for a biofuel project during the Special Session. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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JACKSON — Synthetic marijuana is now illegal in Mississippi.

Gov. Haley Barbour on Friday signed a bill immediately banning the sale and possession of the herbal mixture known by names such as Spice, K2, Demon, Voodoo, Genie and Zohai.

Retailers can't sell the products, but they have until Oct. 1 to return them to distributors or turn them over to law officers.

Barbour also signed a multimillion dollar incentive package for a Texas-based biofuels company, KiOR, to develop factories in Mississippi to convert timber products into a crude oil substitute.

He also signed local bills for DeSoto County and D'Iberville. Lawmakers passed all the measures during an Aug. 27 special session.

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The bills are Senate Bill 2004 and House Bills 8, 2 and 3.
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sawmilltrash
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September 03, 2010
After the Bourbon Restoration, many said, "The Bourbons never forgot anything, or learned anything."

Likewise with the representative assembly of the "Grand and Sovereign State of Mississippi, as Ross used to say.

Ban _______________ (fill in the blank), and your public servants (i.e., cops), can make a day by staging roadblocks and rifling through vehicles, instead of being a presence on the street, and helping protect property and person.

When the revolution comes, will you understand why?
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brewer88
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September 03, 2010
what the hell, why is it that just because some people do not like this fake weed that now it can be labeled illegal? something else the law can tell you what to buy or not. lets make beer and whiskey illegal. wait, that will never happen since most politicians are drunks anyway. MISSISSIPPI sucks. people have rights or do they?????????????
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Pragmatic
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September 03, 2010
I believe the picture is of a senator holding the bill up to have someone come read it to him. I mean come on he is a senator on special session, how could we even expect him to read it to himself?????

OR, he could be just holding his hand up to show that he is in with the group headed to Hooters after the vote....
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WTFDude
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September 03, 2010
Way to tackle a non-issue!!

Since it's not illegal federally, one can sit in their living room and have it delivered to them in the mail if they really want it.

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kenrblan1901
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September 03, 2010
@jhall2

If only that were true.
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jhall2
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September 03, 2010
That's just democrats who don't read what they vote for. :D
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kenrblan1901
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September 03, 2010
Since most politicians no longer read the bills they sign, it would be incredibly hilarious if one of the staffers who wrote the actual bill put in some language to the effect of "Henceforth, there shall be no sale or use of synthetic marijuana in the State of Mississippi. Only all-natural traditionally produced marijuana many be sold and used."
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For-real?
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September 03, 2010
Fabulous, we have now solved the fake problem of fake weed. Now that that's done, can we please get back to real problems like cleaning up the Gulf, and educating our kids?
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