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Marijuana Use Barely Up, Synthetic Drug Use Sharply Down, Along With Other Narcotics

December 18, 2013 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The use of synthetic marijuana products and bath salts dropped sharply in 2013 among students in middle and high school as students increasingly see the products as dangerous, according to the most authoritative annual drug and alcohol survey, with marijuana use up slightly but most other drugs showing declines.

Sheriff Manfre Drafts the Press to Fight The Bogus Epidemic of Fake Pot

September 16, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The bogus drug-bust news conference was a specialty of former Sheriff Don Fleming, as it has been for innumerable police agencies since the dawn of Nixon;s war on drugs since 1971. Last week, Sheriff Jim Manfre unfortunately joined the parade, this time amplifying fears of a fake epidemic of fake pot.

Sheriff Trumpets Bi-County Synthetic Pot Bust, But Inaccuracies About “Epidemic” Abound

September 12, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Some 80 cops fanned out Thursday in Flagler and St. Johns to arrest 11 individuals allegedly involved in the synthetic pot trade, charging five of them under the severe racketeering law, but in an orchestrated news conference at the sheriff’s office in the afternoon, officials inaccurately hyped the synthetic marijuana problem with little evidence to boot.

The Palm Coast City Council’s Disturbing Synthetic Marijuana High

September 30, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

On synthetic pot, the Palm Coast City Council and other local governments are being had, as governments trample due process to enforce a legal shortcut against a ghost epidemic–the latest hysteria in the derelict war on drugs.

How Two Council Members, Out of View, Got WNZF to Back-Pedal on Synthetic Marijuana

September 27, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

What was behind what sounded like a retraction on synthetic marijuana by WNZF’s David Ayres on his Free For All Friday show last week? Private discussions between Palm Coast Council member Bill McGuire with Mayor Jon Netts, and a letter Netts wrote Ayres, that the council never discussed openly–even as the council has yet to vote finally on the matter.

Adopting Legally Blurry Policing Role, Palm Coast Takes On Synthetic Pot Sellers

September 11, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council would impose a $300-a-day fine on convenience stores that persist in selling legal products known as synthetic marijuana, and would use its code enforcement as its policing arm, with assistance from the sheriff’s office.

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