Synthetic marijuana hard to legislate
A Des Moines lawmaker is working with civil rights groups to draft legislation that would prohibit racial profiling by Iowa law enforcement officers and require agencies to create citizen boards to review profiling complaints.
In Iowa and across the United States, lawmakers and law enforcement have struggled to pass bills that keep up with the constantly changing chemicals used in synthetic marijuana.
The state Legislature failed to pass a bill this session that would have increased penalties for people convicted of selling synthetic drugs and making illegal chemicals used to manufacture the drugs.
It initially passed the Republican-controlled House, but the Democrat-controlled Senate added amendments the House ultimately rejected.
Sen. Steve Sodders, a Democrat from State Center who chaired the judiciary committee, which added those amendments, said he wanted to make changes to the drug code to equalize penalties for crack and powder cocaine and make possession of small...
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