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House approves ban on certain hallucinogenic chemicals in candies and gummies
Summary
The Louisiana House passed House Bill 176 to outlaw production, manufacture, distribution and possession of products containing several specified hallucinogenic chemicals — a package lawmakers said targets brightly packaged “gummies” and candies marketed to resemble legal psychedelics.
The Louisiana House of Representatives on May 6 approved House Bill 176, a measure that makes it unlawful to “produce, manufacture, distribute, or possess with intent to distribute products containing beta-phenyl-GABA, muscimol, ibotenic acid, or their analogs intended for human consumption.” Representative Sam Furman, the bill’s sponsor, told colleagues the substances are commonly found in brightly packaged candies and gummies and have caused health harms.
Furman said the products are often…
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