Good job, coppers!
Friday, Apr 13, 2018 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Half of the state’s recent spike in serious synthetic cannabis illnesses (and three deaths) have been in the Peoria-Pekin area, so this is good news…
A Pekin man has been charged with a drug induced homicide for selling synthetic cannabis to a man who ingested it and died.
Lonnie K. Smith will appear at the Tazewell County Justice Center at 1 p.m.today on the charge, a Class X felony, along with a charges of aggravated battery and unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.
According to the probable cause statement provided by Tazewell County States Attorney’s office, Smith knowingly delivered FUB-AMB, a controlled substance, to Anthony Phillips who ingested around 11 p.m. April 7. He died at UnityPoint Health - Methodist April 9.
Smith is also being charged with aggravated battery for delivering the substance to Rena Corp, who lived with Phillips, because she also got sick after ingesting it.
- @misterjayem - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 11:19 am:
Sure, but how many Illinoisans have died from ingesting the wacky tobacky this year?
– MrJM
- Homer J. Quinn - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 11:23 am:
MrJM: we need at least 20 years of rigorous scientific study before we can answer that question. there just isn’t enough data. maybe by 3018 we can run some experiments but until then, it’s better to play it safe and delay, delay, delay.
- walker - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 11:38 am:
Good first step.
What commercial enterprise produces this and similar products? Who packages and distributes them to multiple retailers? There is more than a one-off.
- Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 11:44 am:
please stop using snythetic marijuana, that’s a pill in the pharmacy. This is fake marijana
- Da Big Bad Wolf - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 12:01 pm:
It’s interesting that the DEA only made FUB-AMB illegal 7 months ago. The composition of synthetic cannabis keeps changing and they can’t keep up.
- Stuntman Bob's Brother - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 12:32 pm:
Can the stores who peddle this poison be sued for the damage that it causes? I guess if you’re dumb enough to buy and smoke unknown crap from the local gas station, at least be smart enough to get a printed, dated receipt so your next of kin can sue the store after you’re gone. This whole “It’s cool to be high” culture that grows ever stronger in this country, is going to kill a whole lot more folks in the years ahead. Nancy Reagan had it right.
- 10$ Lid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 12:35 pm:
Homer- I appreciate the snark. If they don’t have enough lab science yet to justify legalization, what science did they use to justify making it illegal?
- Homer J. Quinn - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 12:52 pm:
Lid: no science. in fact the American Medical Association sent a letter to congress opposing the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, but the opinions of the medical community were ignored.
- crazybleedingheart - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 1:21 pm:
Prosecuting drug delivery as homicide does not deter drug use or sales and contributes to preventable deaths as people are afraid to report.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/resource/DIH
- wordslinger - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 2:15 pm:
What’s the body count on real weed, ever? That Sched I substance the chemo patients want so they can kick the opiods?
Maybe the governor and Shah can break it down for us.
- Mama - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 4:06 pm:
“Can the stores who peddle this poison be sued for the damage that it causes?”
If the stores cannot be sued for selling fake pot “synthetic cannabis”, we need a new law.