{"id":641,"date":"2011-07-04T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/?p=641"},"modified":"2011-07-04T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T15:01:05","slug":"fad-legislation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Fad Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/span>Several years ago, 2005 to be exact, there was a piece of legislation introduced in the Iowa House of Representatives that would have made it illegal to display \u201cspinning hubcaps\u201d on a moving vehicle.\u00a0 A subcommittee was convened to actually consider this bill.\u00a0 Yes, those hubcaps designed to spin when the car stops can be annoying.\u00a0 But they\u2019re not as annoying as legislation that is introduced (and sometimes enacted) to deal with a fad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most legislation prohibiting the use, display, or possession of a fad is synonymous with clothing and drugs.\u00a0 In 1942, the War Production Board banned the manufacture of zoot suits.\u00a0 Supposedly, the suits required too much material, which could be used for other things, like parachutes. \u00a0Off the record, Americans feared the Latinos and African-Americans who wore them.\u00a0 The Los Angeles City Council also banned the zoot suits after the Zoot Suit Riots in 1943.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>It was fear that led to the prohibition of clothing, and it\u2019s fear that becomes the heaviest factor in banning certain designer drugs.\u00a0 Toward the end of this past Iowa Legislative Session, the Senate agreed with the House to ban a few fad drugs, among them: salvia (salvia divinorum), K2 (Spice), and bath salts.\u00a0 Fawkes-Lee & Ryan opposed this legislation for several reasons, but the most important reason is the precedents of having the Legislature determine which drugs are to be prohibited and which drugs are safe to use.\u00a0 This is a function of the Board of Pharmacy and it should be delegated wholly to the BOP.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to believe that any legislator today can tell me what this means: 4-methylmethcathinone,(RS)-2-methylamino-l-(4-methylphenyl).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Changing a molecule in most of the designer drugs makes a different substance that may have the same effect as the one that was just banned.\u00a0 However, because a molecule has been altered, removed, or added, it\u2019s not the same and therefore, most likely, legal.\u00a0 The Legislature cannot keep up with the task of determining what is harmful, what will go away quietly, and what is innocuous.\u00a0 Often, banning a product gives it the \u201cforbidden fruit\u201d label, which means that it must be good and worth the trouble of trying it.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBanned in Boston\u201d is an outdated slogan that encouraged people elsewhere throughout the country to check it out.\u00a0 The Puritanical roots of Boston weighed heavily on the local authorities power to prohibit the sale or possession of offensive materials, or the performance of plays that may have contained sexual innuendo or foul language.\u00a0 In that sense, banning a product often leads to its popularity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s ironic that the recent effort to ban the designer drugs of today (Spice, salvia, etc.) also included removing benzylfentanyl and thenylfentanyl from the Schedule I drugs, meaning that they had no medical usefulness and were subject to potential abuse.\u00a0 The \u201cDEA determined that these compounds were both essentially inactive, with no evidence of abuse potential. As such, these compounds are no longer schedule I controlled substances and all references to these compounds are being deleted from DEA regulations.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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