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Panel votes to outlaw hallucinogenic use of plants
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus May 11, 2005 12:02pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New Orleans Times-Picayune |
| News Date | Wednesday, May 11, 2005 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Turning morning glories, angel trumpets or any of 37 other plants containing hallucinogenic compounds into a product for human consumption will be outlawed in Louisiana if a bill approved Wednesday by a House committee becomes law.
Rep. Michael Strain, R-Covington, won approval of the bill by the House Criminal Justice Committee after running into opposition a week earlier from purveyors of "homeopathic" remedies, some of which contain small amounts of at least two of the plants in question — atropa belladonna, also known as nightshade, and Hyoscyamus niger, or black henbane.
Strain amended the bill during Wednesday's meeting of the House Criminal Justice Committee to exempt products that are approved by the FDA as homeopathic remedies — remedies based on the theory that disease symptoms can be cured by small doses of substances which produce similar symptoms in healthy people.
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