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Senate panel advances spice bill

A red Night Lights capsule is place on top of the synthetic drug’s packaging.  Photo Credit: Darin Pedneau.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced a bill that would crack down on the use of synthetic forms of marijuana called "spice."


Senate File 29 now goes to the full Senate for consideration. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports that the bill approved by the committee Monday would expand the definition of spice and would outlaw more chemical compounds that are used to make the drugs. In 2011, the Legislature approved a bill outlawing spice.


But Democratic Sen. Floyd Esquibel, of Cheyenne, says those who make spice often come up with different compounds to make the drug and the law needs to be updated to ban those new compounds.


(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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