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Kansas man gets 7 years plus for bath salts
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A Kansas man has been sent to federal prison for nearly eight years for possessing bath salts in Nebraska before they specifically were made illegal by state and federal law.
“This is not your run of the mill drug case,” Steven Miles Sullivan’s attorney, Glenn Shapiro, said at sentencing last week. “He thought he was complying with the law.”
That’s because when a deputy stopped Sullivan on Oct. 27, 2010, in Otoe County and Sullivan said he had K2 and a bag of bath salts in his vehicle neither was illegal.
Both are now, under both state and federal law.
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I’m like that old lady in the Doonesbury cartoon, “Bath salts? Nice boy getting a present for his granny?”
Graham James, the former ice hockey pedophile, just got 2 years for ruining the lives of two young men. Is already in prison for two others. Go figure.
I thought this was a bit too bizarre… Bath salts, really? Turns out “bath salts” means new recational drugs meant to imitate stuff like meth and ecstacy.
The illegality of structurally similar chemicals is undoubtedly in place to avoid drugs becoming legal from minor chemical modifications.
And then there’s this bit:
“Over 11 years, Kopf said, Sullivan had 12 contacts with law enforcement, all but two involving controlled substances.”
I’m not arguing that it’s now clear that the guy was wrongly convicted or that the sentence was reasonable; it seems like a crazy sentence to me. But it also seems like there may (!) have been a reasonable case against him.