The House voted today to ban synthetic cocaine and PCP, also known as bath salts. <\/p>\n

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The drugs were legal sold in head shops and convenient stores until earlier this year when Florida?s Attorney General issued an emergency order banning them. From there Representative Jimmy Patronis filed legislation to permanently ban bath salts. Minutes after the bill passed the House unanimously Patronis told us banning the drugs will save lives. <\/p>\n

?It is going to create a predictable in law enforcement?s ability to do their job. And knowing this is one less option for somebody to put in their system and chemically imbalance themselves and do harm to anybody and themselves,? said Patronis.<\/p>\n

Now the bill heads to the state senate where it?s expected to receive unanimous support. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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